AIKIDO-2025-10845
calamine is vulnerable to Memory Allocation with Excessive Size Value
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Medium Risk
This Affects:
calamineTL;DR
Affected versions of the calamine crate could be forced to allocate unbounded amounts of memory when parsing certain XLS files, allowing a malicious spreadsheet to crash the application via out-of-memory. This issue has been addressed by adding bounds to memory allocations during XLS parsing, preventing resource exhaustion.
Who does this affect?
You are affected if you are using a version that falls within the vulnerable range.
Background info
calamine is vulnerable to Memory Allocation with Excessive Size Value in versions 0.13.1 - 0.31.0.
How to fix this
Upgrade the calamine library to a patch version.
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