CVE-2026-97222

Gnumeric: gnumeric: heap use-after-free when opening a malformed workbook

State: Published
Severity: 5.5 Medium
Published: Sep 25, 2026
Updated: Sep 25, 2026
Reserved: Sep 24, 2026

Description

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.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	5.5 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	fedora

Weaknesses

CWE-416 Use After Free

Affected Products

Product	Versions
GnumericGNOME	1.11.0 and laterAffected bc1dee29525933994181fb2307d6ad584de6040dNot affected

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-97222vdb-entry
RHBZ#2541397issue-tracking
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnumeric/-/issues/897

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