Fedora 39: libxls 2024-e74783429c
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
Change Log
* Sun Feb 18 2024 Elliott Sales de Andrade
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