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openSUSE Security Update : libxls (openSUSE-2021-812)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 150088

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

This update for libxls fixes the following issues :

libxsl was updated to release 1.6.2 :

 - Fix NULL pointer dereferences in the xls2csv tool [boo#1179532] [CVE-2020-27819]

Update to release 1.6.1

 - Enabled decoding of non-Unicode character sets in older (BIFF5) XLS files.

 - Improved string conversion performance in newer files.

update to 1.5.3 :

 - Allow truncated XLS files

 - Fix long-standing 'extra column' bug #73

 - Support for RSTRING records (rich-text cells in older BIFF5 files) tidyverse/readxl#611

Solution

Update the affected libxls packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1179532

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 150088

File Name: openSUSE-2021-812.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/1/2021

Updated: 12/28/2023

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-27819

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libxlsreader8, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libxls-debugsource, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:15.2, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libxls-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libxls-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libxlsreader8-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libxls-tools, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libxls-tools-debuginfo

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/30/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/23/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-27819