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Posted on 30 December 2023
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Debian Security Advisory DSA-5592-1 security@debian.org
https://www.debian.org/security/ Salvatore Bonaccorso
December 30, 2023 https://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package : libspreadsheet-parseexcel-perl
CVE ID : CVE-2023-7101
Debian Bug : 1059450
It was discovered that missing input sanitising in
libspreadsheet-parseexcel-perl, a Perl module to access information from
Excel Spreadsheets, may result in the execution of arbitrary commands if
a specially crafted document file is processed.
For the oldstable distribution (bullseye), this problem has been fixed
in version 0.6500-1.1+deb11u1.
For the stable distribution (bookworm), this problem has been fixed in
version 0.6500-4~deb12u1.
We recommend that you upgrade your libspreadsheet-parseexcel-perl packages.
For the detailed security status of libspreadsheet-parseexcel-perl
please refer to its security tracker page at:
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/libspreadsheet-parseexcel-perl
Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://www.debian.org/security/
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