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Fedora 33: FEDORA-2020-ad84def381 Critical: Libxls Null Pointer Issue

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Calendar Grey December 11, 2020
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The recent Libxls upgrade for Fedora resolves CVE-2020-27819, implementing a crucial patch for the NULL pointer vulnerability.
Security fix for CVE-2020-27819

Summary

This is libxls, a C library for reading Excel files in the old binary OLE

format, plus a command-line tool for converting XLS to CSV (named,

appropriately enough, libxls2csv).

Security fix for CVE-2020-27819

* Tue Dec 1 2020 Elliott Sales de Andrade - 1.6.1-2

- Fix CVE-2020-27819

[ 1 ] Bug #1903296 - CVE-2020-27819 libxls: NULL pointer dereference via crafted xls file

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1903296

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2020-ad84def381' 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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Product: Fedora 33
Version: 1.6.1
Release: 2.fc33
Summary: Read binary Excel files from C/C++

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