FreeXL: Multiple vulnerabilities — GLSA 202007-44

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in FreeXL, the worst of which could result in a Denial of Service condition.

Affected packages

Background

FreeXL is an open source library to extract valid data from within an Excel (.xls) spreadsheet.

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

 # 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

Release date
July 27, 2020

Latest revision
July 27, 2020: 1

Severity
normal

Exploitable
remote

Bugzilla entries

• 648700