Fedora alert FEDORA-2017-b7e6e4cfc1 (freexl)

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[SECURITY] Fedora 25 Update: freexl-1.0.4-1.fc25 
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Sun, 17 Sep 2017 09:49:39 +0000 (UTC)
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2017-b7e6e4cfc1
2017-09-17 01:38:06.739454
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Name        : freexl
Product     : Fedora 25
Version     : 1.0.4
Release     : 1.fc25
URL         : http://www.gaia-gis.it/FreeXL

Summary     : Library to extract data from within an Excel spreadsheet
Description :
FreeXL is a library to extract valid data
from within an Excel spreadsheet (.xls)

Design goals:
    * simple and lightweight
    * stable, robust and efficient
    * easily and universally portable
    * completely ignore any GUI-related oddity

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Update Information:

This update fixes a Cisco Talos CVE:  "A specially crafted XLS file can cause a
memory corruption resulting in remote code execution.  An attacker can send
malicious XLS file to trigger this vulnerability."
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #1489621 - freexl-1.0.4 is available
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1489621

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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade freexl' at the command line.
For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at
http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgr...

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the
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https://fedoraproject.org/keys

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