gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-201606-15.xml

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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201606-15">
  <title>FreeXL: Multiple vulnerabilities</title>
  <synopsis>Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in FreeXL, allowing remote
    attackers to executive arbitrary code or cause Denial of Service.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild"/>
  <announced>2016-06-26</announced>
  <revised count="1">2016-06-26</revised>
  <bug>544426</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="dev-libs/freexl" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">1.0.1</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">1.0.1</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>FreeXL is an open source library to extract valid data from within an
      Excel (.xls) spreadsheet.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>FreeXL’s shared strings and workbook functions are vulnerable to the
      remote execution of arbitrary code and Denial of Service.  This can be
      achieved through specially crafted workbooks from attackers.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>Remote attackers could potentially execute arbitrary code or cause
      Denial of Service.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>All FreeXL users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "dev-libs/freexl-1.0.1"
    </code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2015-2753">CVE-2015-2753</uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2015-2754">CVE-2015-2754</uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2015-2776">CVE-2015-2776</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2016-03-16T12:15:29Z">b-man</metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2016-06-26T23:53:53Z">b-man</metadata>
</glsa>