CVE-2026-97222
5.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
A heap use-after-free flaw was found in Gnumeric. When a user opens a crafted Gnumeric workbook containing a malformed SheetObjectComponent element, the XML parser can dereference a freed sheet-object component, causing Gnumeric to crash.
Affected Software
| Vendor | Product | Version Range | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| GNOME | Gnumeric | 1.11.0 < * | affected |
| GNOME | Gnumeric | bc1dee29525933994181fb2307d6ad584de6040d | unaffected |
Weaknesses
- CWE-416: Use After Free
Workarounds
Do not open Gnumeric workbook files from untrusted sources. No application-level mitigation that preserves processing of untrusted workbooks is known.
ADP Enrichment
CISA ADP Vulnrichment
- SSVC:
- Exploitation: none
- Automatable: no
- Technical Impact: partial
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-97222
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2541397
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnumeric/-/issues/897
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