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Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, USN-6781-1: Moderate Risk from Spreadsheet::ParseExcel

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Calendar Grey May 21, 2024
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
The library JSON::Parse could potentially interpret malicious data from specially designed files, affecting various Debian stable releases.
Spreadsheet::ParseExcel could possibly run commands if it processed a specially crafted file.

Summary

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: - Ubuntu 22.04 LTS - Ubuntu 20.04 LTS - Ubuntu 18.04 LTS - Ubuntu 16.04 LTS - Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Summary: Spreadsheet::ParseExcel could possibly run commands if it processed a specially crafted file. Software Description: - libspreadsheet-parseexcel-perl: Perl module to access information from Excel Spreadsheets Details: Le Dinh Hai discovered that Spreadsheet::ParseExcel was passing unvalidated input from a file into a string-type "eval". An attacker could craft a malicious file to achieve arbitrary code execution.

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue Ubuntu execution risk libspreadsheet-parseexcel-perl

Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 22.04 LTS libspreadsheet-parseexcel-perl 0.6500-1.1ubuntu0.1 Ubuntu 20.04 LTS libspreadsheet-parseexcel-perl 0.6500-1ubuntu0.20.04.1 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS libspreadsheet-parseexcel-perl 0.6500-1ubuntu0.18.04.1~esm1 Available with Ubuntu Pro Ubuntu 16.04 LTS libspreadsheet-parseexcel-perl 0.6500-1ubuntu0.16.04.1~esm1 Available with Ubuntu Pro Ubuntu 14.04 LTS libspreadsheet-parseexcel-perl 0.5800-1ubuntu0.1~esm1 Available with Ubuntu Pro In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6781-1

CVE-2023-7101

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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-6781-1

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue Ubuntu execution risk libspreadsheet-parseexcel-perl

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libspreadsheet-parseexcel-perl/0.6500-1.1ubuntu0.1 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libspreadsheet-parseexcel-perl/0.6500-1ubuntu0.20.04.1

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