Debian Security Advisory
DSA-4173-1 r-cran-readxl -- security update
- Date Reported:
- 16 Apr 2018
- Affected Packages:
- r-cran-readxl
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2017-2896, CVE-2017-2897, CVE-2017-2919, CVE-2017-12110, CVE-2017-12111.
- More information:
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Marcin Noga discovered multiple vulnerabilities in readxl, a GNU R package to read Excel files (via the integrated libxls library), which could result in the execution of arbitrary code if a malformed spreadsheet is processed.
For the stable distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed in version 0.1.1-1+deb9u1.
We recommend that you upgrade your r-cran-readxl packages.
For the detailed security status of r-cran-readxl please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/r-cran-readxl