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Gentoo: GLSA-202007-44 Advisory: Multiple Vulnerabilities in FreeXL

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Calendar Grey July 26, 2020
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
FreeXL has unveiled a series of vulnerabilities, potentially causing Denial of Service in Gentoo installations. Users are advised to upgrade promptly.
Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in FreeXL, the worst of which could result in a Denial of Service condition.

Summary

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in FreeXL. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

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Topics Covered

security advisory gentoo multiple vulnerabilities dos freexl

Resolution

All FreeXL users should upgrade to the latest version: # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-libs/freexl-1.0.5"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2018-7435 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-7435 [ 2 ] CVE-2018-7436 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-7436 [ 3 ] CVE-2018-7437 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-7437 [ 4 ] CVE-2018-7438 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-7438 [ 5 ] CVE-2018-7439 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-7439

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202007-44
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Concerns

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users' machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.

Severity: Normal
Title: FreeXL: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date: July 27, 2020
Bugs: #648700
ID: 202007-44

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Topics Covered

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Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in FreeXL, the worst of which could result in a Denial of Service condition.

Background

FreeXL is an open source library to extract valid data from within an Excel (.xls) spreadsheet.

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Affected Packages

------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 dev-libs/freexl < 1.0.5 >= 1.0.5

Impact

===== Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

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