openSUSE-SU-2021:0812-1

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https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/osv/openSUSE-SU-2021:0812-1.json
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Published
2021-05-30T12:05:14Z
Modified
2025-05-07T18:12:00.684688Z
Summary
Security update for libxls
Details

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
References

Affected packages

openSUSE:Leap 15.2 / libxls

Package

Name
libxls
Purl
pkg:rpm/opensuse/libxls&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.2

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1.6.2-lp152.2.3.1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "libxls-devel": "1.6.2-lp152.2.3.1",
            "libxlsreader8": "1.6.2-lp152.2.3.1",
            "libxls-tools": "1.6.2-lp152.2.3.1"
        }
    ]
}