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Vulnerability Instance

Lookup for vulnerabilities affecting packages.

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    "vulnerability_id": "VCID-bwpb-sy8d-4qf4",
    "summary": "The excel_read_HLINK function in plugins/excel/ms-excel-read.c in Gnome Office Gnumeric before 1.8.1 allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted XLS file containing XLS HLINK opcodes, possibly because of an integer signedness error that leads to an integer overflow.  NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.",
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