Package: r-cran-gdata Version: 2.18.0.1-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
I believe r-cran-gdata 2.18.0.1-1 in Debian 12 is vulnerable to CVE-2023-7101 due to shipping a copy of Utility.pm from Spreadsheet::ParseExcel that uses string eval for conditional formatting. C.f. this patch: https://github.com/jmcnamara/spreadsheet-parseexcel/commit/bd3159277e745468e2c553417b35d5d7dc7405bc referenced from the Debian CVE page: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-7101 This vulnerability is patched in the version of Utility.pm in libspreadsheet-parseexcel-perl and the vulnerability does not exist in r-cran-gdata as of 3.0.0-1 (currently in testing and unstable) due to the affected perl modules being dropped from the upstream code. I don't know if there are any actual code paths in gdata's use of Spreadsheet::ParseExcel that would trigger the vulnerability. So, this _is_ fixed in the Debian gdata package as of testing, but I'm reporting it in case the CVE should prompt a security patch for stable. Thank you for your time, Mark -- System Information: Debian Release: 12.5 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-21-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages r-cran-gdata depends on: ii r-base-core [r-api-4.0] 4.2.2.20221110-2 ii r-cran-gtools 3.9.4-1 r-cran-gdata recommends no packages. r-cran-gdata suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
