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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3976-1 freexl -- security update

Date Reported:

17 Sep 2017

Affected Packages:

freexl

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 875690, Bug 875691.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2017-2923, CVE-2017-2924.

More information:

Marcin Icewall Noga of Cisco Talos discovered two vulnerabilities in freexl, a library to read Microsoft Excel spreadsheets, which might result in denial of service or the execution of arbitrary code if a malformed Excel file is opened.

For the oldstable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 1.0.0g-1+deb8u4.

For the stable distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed in version 1.0.2-2+deb9u1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 1.0.4-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your freexl packages.