GLSA Advocate
Joined: 12 May 2004 Posts: 2663
|
Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2020 6:26 pm Post subject: [ GLSA 202007-44 ] FreeXL |
|
|
Gentoo Linux Security Advisory
Title: FreeXL: Multiple vulnerabilities (GLSA 202007-44)
Severity: normal
Exploitable: remote
Date: 2020-07-27
Bug(s): #648700
ID: 202007-44
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.
Affected Packages
Package: dev-libs/freexl
Vulnerable: < 1.0.5
Unaffected: >= 1.0.5
Architectures: All supported architectures
Description
Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in FreeXL. Please review
the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.
Impact
Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details.
Workaround
There is no known workaround at this time.
Resolution
All FreeXL users should upgrade to the latest version: Code: | # emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-libs/freexl-1.0.5"
|
References
CVE-2018-7435
CVE-2018-7436
CVE-2018-7437
CVE-2018-7438
CVE-2018-7439 |
|