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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2018-5573046c3b
2018-03-06 17:26:39.511112
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Name : freexl
Product : Fedora 26
Version : 1.0.5
Release : 1.fc26
URL :
http://www.gaia-gis.it/FreeXL
Summary : Library to extract data from within an Excel spreadsheet
Description :
FreeXL is a library to extract valid data
from within an Excel spreadsheet (.xls)
Design goals:
* simple and lightweight
* stable, robust and efficient
* easily and universally portable
* completely ignore any GUI-related oddity
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Update Information:
Fixes several heap-buffer-overflows, see related Bugzilla tickets!
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #1547892 - heap-buffer-overflow in freexl.c:3912 read_mini_biff_next_record of
FreeXL 1.0.4
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1547892
[ 2 ] Bug #1547889 - heap-buffer-overflow in freexl.c:383 parse_unicode_string of FreeXL
1.0.4
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1547889
[ 3 ] Bug #1547885 - heap-buffer-overflow in freexl.c:1866 parse_SST of FreeXL 1.0.4
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1547885
[ 4 ] Bug #1547883 - heap-buffer-overflow in freexl.c:1805 parse_SST parse_SST
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1547883
[ 5 ] Bug #1547879 - heap-buffer-overflow in freexl::destroy_cell of FreeXL 1.0.4
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1547879
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade freexl' 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
All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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