Ubuntu Security Notices
USN-6781-1

USN-6781-1: Spreadsheet::ParseExcel vulnerability

Publication date

21 May 2024

Overview

Spreadsheet::ParseExcel could possibly run commands if it processed a specially crafted file.

Releases

22.04 LTS 20.04 LTS 18.04 LTS 16.04 LTS 14.04 LTS

Packages

libspreadsheet-parseexcel-perl - Perl module to access information from Excel Spreadsheets

Details

Le Dinh Hai discovered that Spreadsheet::ParseExcel was passing unvalidated
input from a file into a string-type “eval”. An attacker could craft a
malicious file to achieve arbitrary code execution.

Update instructions

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

Learn more about how to get the fixes.

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu Release	Package Version
22.04 jammy	libspreadsheet-parseexcel-perl – 0.6500-1.1ubuntu0.1
20.04 focal	libspreadsheet-parseexcel-perl – 0.6500-1ubuntu0.20.04.1
18.04 bionic	libspreadsheet-parseexcel-perl – 0.6500-1ubuntu0.18.04.1~esm1
16.04 xenial	libspreadsheet-parseexcel-perl – 0.6500-1ubuntu0.16.04.1~esm1
14.04 trusty	libspreadsheet-parseexcel-perl – 0.5800-1ubuntu0.1~esm1

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References

CVE-2023-7101

CVE-2023-7101