Executive Summary

Summary
Title FreeXL: Multiple vulnerabilities
Informations
Name GLSA-201606-15 First vendor Publication 2016-06-26
Vendor Gentoo Last vendor Modification 2016-06-26
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 6.8 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 8.6 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in FreeXL, allowing remote attackers to executive arbitrary code or cause Denial of Service.

Background

FreeXL is an open source library to extract valid data from within an Excel (.xls) spreadsheet.

Description

FreeXL's shared strings and workbook functions are vulnerable to the remote execution of arbitrary code and Denial of Service. This can be achieved through specially crafted workbooks from attackers.

Impact

Remote attackers could potentially execute arbitrary code or cause Denial of Service.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All FreeXL users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "dev-libs/freexl-1.0.1"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2015-2753
http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2015-2753
[ 2 ] CVE-2015-2754
http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2015-2754
[ 3 ] CVE-2015-2776
http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2015-2776

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website:

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201606-15

Original Source

Url : http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201606-15.xml

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Os 1

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2016-06-27 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201606-15.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-08-19 Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing a security-related update.
File : freebsd_pkg_ac98d09045cc11e5adde14dae9d210b8.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-03-30 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-3208.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Alert History

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Date Informations
2016-06-28 13:27:40
  • Multiple Updates
2016-06-27 05:24:36
  • First insertion