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Fedora 34: FEDORA-2022-36e71f0324 Severe: libyaml Security Vulnerability

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Calendar Grey November 23, 2021
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Important security patch for libxls implemented to counter denial of service vulnerabilities in Fedora 33, improving system reliability.
Security fix for CVE-2021-27836

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-2021-27836

* Tue Nov 16 2021 Elliott Sales de Andrade 1.6.2-5

- Fix release

* Tue Nov 16 2021 Elliott Sales de Andrade 1.6.2-5

- Fix CVE-2021-27836 (#2023409)

* Thu Jul 22 2021 Fedora Release Engineering - 1.6.2-3

- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_35_Mass_Rebuild

* Tue Jan 26 2021 Fedora Release Engineering - 1.6.2-2

- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_34_Mass_Rebuild

[ 1 ] Bug #2023408 - CVE-2021-27836 libxls: a denial of service via a crafted XLS file

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2023408

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2021-25e89d9374' 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: 1.6.2
Release: 5.fc33
Summary: Read binary Excel files from C/C++

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