ALAS-2024-491


Amazon Linux 2023 Security Advisory: ALAS-2024-491
Advisory Release Date: 2024-01-19 01:31 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2024-01-22 20:30 Pacific
Severity: Important

Issue Overview:

Spreadsheet::ParseExcel version 0.65 is a Perl module used for parsing Excel files. Spreadsheet::ParseExcel is vulnerable to an arbitrary code execution (ACE) vulnerability due to passing unvalidated input from a file into a string-type "eval". Specifically, the issue stems from the evaluation of Number format strings (not to be confused with printf-style format strings) within the Excel parsing logic. (CVE-2023-7101)


Affected Packages:

perl-Spreadsheet-ParseExcel


Issue Correction:
Run dnf update perl-Spreadsheet-ParseExcel --releasever 2023.3.20240122 to update your system.

New Packages:
aarch64:
    perl-Spreadsheet-ParseExcel-0.6500-28.amzn2023.0.3.aarch64

src:
    perl-Spreadsheet-ParseExcel-0.6500-28.amzn2023.0.3.src

x86_64:
    perl-Spreadsheet-ParseExcel-0.6500-28.amzn2023.0.3.x86_64