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openSUSE 2024:0021-1 moderate: perl-Spreadsheet-ParseXLSX memory issue

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Calendar Grey January 16, 2024
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
Significant upgrades in openSUSE's perl-Spreadsheet-ParseXLSX address a memory leak issue and boost document parsing speed.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available

Description

This update for perl-Spreadsheet-ParseXLSX fixes the following issues:

Updated to 0.29:

see /usr/share/doc/packages/perl-Spreadsheet-ParseXLSX/Changes

0.29:

- Fix for 'Argument "" isn't numeric in addition (+) at /usr/local/shar…

- Incorrect cell values due to phonetic data doy#72

- Fix die message in parse()

- Cannot open password protected SHA1 encrypted files. doy#68

- use date format detection based on Spreadsheet::XLSX

- Add rudimentary support for hyperlinks in cells

0.28:

- CVE-2024-22368: out-of-memory condition during parsing of a crafted XLSX

document (boo#1218651)

- Fix possible memory bomb as reported in

lsx_bomb.md

- Updated Dist::Zilla configuration fixing deprecation warnings

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods

like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP5:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2024-21=1

Package List

- openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP5 (noarch):

perl-Spreadsheet-ParseXLSX-0.290.0-bp155.2.3.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-22368.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1218651

Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2024:0021-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products: openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP5 .

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