Fedora 27: freexl Security Update 2017-ea4ed9e540
Summary
FreeXL is a library to extract valid data
from within an Excel spreadsheet (.xls)
Design goals:
* simple and lightweight
* stable, robust and efficient
* easily and universally portable
* completely ignore any GUI-related oddity
This update fixes a Cisco Talos CVE: "A specially crafted XLS file can cause a
memory corruption resulting in remote code execution. An attacker can send
malicious XLS file to trigger this vulnerability."
[ 1 ] Bug #1489621 - freexl-1.0.4 is available
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1489621
su -c 'dnf upgrade freexl' at the command line.
For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at
https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html
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FEDORA-2017-ea4ed9e540 2017-09-30 05:57:53.231526 Product : Fedora 27 Version : 1.0.4 Release : 1.fc27 URL : Summary : Library to extract data from within an Excel spreadsheet Description : FreeXL is a library to extract valid data from within an Excel spreadsheet (.xls) Design goals: * simple and lightweight * stable, robust and efficient * easily and universally portable * completely ignore any GUI-related oddity This update fixes a Cisco Talos CVE: "A specially crafted XLS file can cause a memory corruption resulting in remote code execution. An attacker can send malicious XLS file to trigger this vulnerability." [ 1 ] Bug #1489621 - freexl-1.0.4 is available https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1489621 su -c 'dnf upgrade freexl' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at https://fedoraproject.org/security/ package-announce mailing list -- package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to package-announce-leave@lists.fedoraproject.org
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