[SECURITY] Fedora 39 Update: libxls-1.6.2-14.fc39
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2024-e74783429c
2024-02-27 01:07:18.072495
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Name : libxls
Product : Fedora 39
Version : 1.6.2
Release : 14.fc39
URL : https://github.com/libxls/libxls
Summary : Read binary Excel files from C/C++
Description :
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).
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Update Information:
Security fix for CVE-2023-38852
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ChangeLog:
* Sun Feb 18 2024 Elliott Sales de Andrade <quantum.analyst(a)gmail.com> - 1.6.2-13
- Backport fix for CVE-2023-38852 (#2232511)
* Thu Jan 25 2024 Fedora Release Engineering <releng(a)fedoraproject.org> - 1.6.2-12
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_40_Mass_Rebuild
* Sun Jan 21 2024 Fedora Release Engineering <releng(a)fedoraproject.org> - 1.6.2-11
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_40_Mass_Rebuild
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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
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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
http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label
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