FreeXL: Multiple vulnerabilities

FreeXL: Multiple vulnerabilities Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in FreeXL, the worst of which could result in a Denial of Service condition. freexl 2020-07-27 2020-07-27 648700 remote 1.0.5 1.0.5

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

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in FreeXL. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details.

There is no known workaround at this time.

All FreeXL users should upgrade to the latest version:


      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-libs/freexl-1.0.5"

CVE-2018-7435 CVE-2018-7436 CVE-2018-7437 CVE-2018-7438 CVE-2018-7439 sam_c sam_c