S-265: Gnumeric Security Vulnerability


 
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Old 04-17-2008
S-265: Gnumeric Security Vulnerability

Several integer overflow weaknesses in Gnumeric, a GNOME spreadsheet application, were discovered. These vulnerabilities could result in the execution of arbitrary code through the opening of a maliciously crafted Excel spreadsheet. The risk is MEDIUM. Could result in the execution of arbitrary code.


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SSGREP(1)							       GNOME								 SSGREP(1)

NAME
ssgrep - search spreadsheets for strings SYNOPSIS
ssgrep [OPTIONS] [FILES] DESCRIPTION
This manual page briefly documents the ssgrep command. ssgrep is a command line utility to search for strings in spreadsheets of any format supported by gnumeric. OPTIONS
This program follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with single letter options starting with a single dash (`-') and longer options starting with two dashes (`--'). Options controlling input file handling --recalc Recalculate all cells Options controlling patterns and pattern matching -f, --keyword-file=FILE The path to a text file containing one key per line -i, --ignore-case Ignore differences in letter case -w, --word-regexp Match only whole words -F, --fixed-strings Pattern is a set of fixed strings -R, --search-results Search results of expressions too -v, --invert-match Search for cells that do not match Options controlling output in general -c, --count Only print a count of matches per file -L, --files-without-matches Print filenames without matches -l, --files-with-matches Print filenames with matches -q, --quiet Suppress all normal output -H, --with-filename Print the filename for each match -h, --without-filename Do not print the filename for each match -n, --print-locus Print the location of each match -T, --print-type Print the location type of each match Help options -V, --version Display ssgrep's version -?, --help Display the supported options --usage Display a brief usage message EXAMPLE
To search for the string "SUM" in the file foo.gnumeric : ssgrep SUM foo.gnumeric To search for the strings from the file keywords in the spreadsheet foo.xls : ssgrep --keyword-file=keywords foo.xls LICENSE
ssgrep is licensed under the terms of the General Public License (GPL), version 2. For information on this license look at the source code that came with the software or see the GNU project page <http://www.gnu.org>. COPYRIGHT
The copyright on ssgrep and the gnumeric software and source code is held by the individual authors as is documented in the source code. AUTHOR
ssgrep's primary author is Jody Goldberg <jody@gnome.org>; ssgrep builds on the gnumeric codebase. The initial version of this manpage was based on ssindex.1 by J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) <jdassen@debian.org>. SEE ALSO
beagled(1), gnumeric(1), ssconvert(1), ssindex(1) The Gnumeric Homepage <http://www.gnome.org/projects/gnumeric/>. The GNOME project page <http://www.gnome.org/>. gnumeric 2009-02-08 SSGREP(1)