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Calendar Grey February 27, 2024
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Urgent security patch released for libxls on Fedora tackling heap buffer overflow vulnerabilities, safeguarding the integrity of Excel documents.
Security fix for CVE-2023-38852

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).

Update Information:

Security fix for CVE-2023-38852

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Change Log

* Sun Feb 18 2024 Elliott Sales de Andrade - 1.6.2-13 - Backport fix for CVE-2023-38852 (#2232511) * Thu Jan 25 2024 Fedora Release Engineering - 1.6.2-12 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_40_Mass_Rebuild * Sun Jan 21 2024 Fedora Release Engineering - 1.6.2-11 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_40_Mass_Rebuild

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2232479 - CVE-2023-38852 libxls: heap buffer overflow in xls_parseWorkBook() in xls.c https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2232479

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2024-e74783429c' 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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Name: libxls
Product: Fedora 39
Version: 1.6.2
Release: 14.fc39
URL: https://github.com/libxls/libxls
Summary: Read binary Excel files from C/C++

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