Fedora 22 : freexl-1.0.0i-1.fc22 (2015-3517)

high Nessus Plugin ID 81862

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Four potentially harmful bugs causing crashes and stack corruption were detected in FreeXL by American Fuzzy Lop and are solved in this release.

Please note: such issues are never realistically expected to be encountered in real world XLS spreadsheets, anyway some purposely forged XLS document could be used as a 'poisoned bait' to maliciously open a security breach.

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/spatialite-users/plxKNbYw184

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected freexl package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1199328

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/spatialite-users/plxKNbYw184

http://www.nessus.org/u?3c993584

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 81862

File Name: fedora_2015-3517.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/17/2015

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:freexl, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:22

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Patch Publication Date: 3/9/2015

Reference Information

FEDORA: 2015-3517