OPENSUSE-SU-2017:2539-1

Vulnerability from csaf_opensuse - Published: 2017-09-21 06:52 - Updated: 2017-09-21 06:52
Summary
Security update for freexl

Notes

Title of the patch
Security update for freexl
Description of the patch
This update for freexl to version 1.0.4 fixes several issues. These security issues were fixed: - CVE-2017-2924: Prevent heap-based buffer overflow in the read_legacy_biff function (bsc#1058433). - CVE-2017-2923: Prevent heap-based buffer overflow in the read_biff_next_record function (bsc#1058431).
Patchnames
openSUSE-2017-1082
Terms of use
CSAF 2.0 data is provided by SUSE under the Creative Commons License 4.0 with Attribution (CC-BY-4.0).
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