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Debian Security Advisory

DLA-1297-1 freexl -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

01 Mar 2018

Affected Packages:

freexl

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2018-7435, CVE-2018-7436, CVE-2018-7437, CVE-2018-7438, CVE-2018-7439.

More information:

Leon reported five heap-based buffer-overflow vulnerabilities in FreeXL.

• CVE-2018-7435

  There is a heap-based buffer over-read in the freexl::destroy_cell function.

• CVE-2018-7436

  There is a heap-based buffer over-read in a pointer dereference of the parse_SST function.

• CVE-2018-7437

  There is a heap-based buffer over-read in a memcpy call of the parse_SST function.

• CVE-2018-7438

  There is a heap-based buffer over-read in the parse_unicode_string function.

• CVE-2018-7439

  There is a heap-based buffer over-read in the function read_mini_biff_next_record.

For Debian 7 Wheezy, these problems have been fixed in version 1.0.0b-1+deb7u5.

We recommend that you upgrade your freexl packages.

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