Fedora 45 : libxls (2026-914d7851ae)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 335892

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Fedora 45 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2026-914d7851ae advisory.

Automatic update for libxls-1.6.3-9.fc45.

##### **Changelog**

```
* Sat Aug 15 2026 Elliott Sales de Andrade <[email protected]> - 1.6.3-9
- Backport CVE patches
- fixes CVE-2026-26824 (rhbz#2484566)
- fixes CVE-2026-26825 (rhbz#2484567)

```

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected libxls package.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 335892

File Name: fedora_2026-914d7851ae.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: Fedora Local Security Checks

Published: 8/15/2026

Updated: 8/15/2026

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.1

Percentile: 7.75

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-26825

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:45, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:libxls

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/15/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/3/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-26824, CVE-2026-26825

FEDORA: 2026-914d7851ae

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