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libmagic1 in 16.04 reports XLS files as application/CDFV2-unknown

Bug #1741128 reported by Tony Caduto
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Bug Description

The libmagic1 package repots XLS files as application/CDFV2-unknown
This is a bug in the libmagic code and has been fixed in version 5.31 and up.
see:
https://github.com/mscdex/mmmagic/issues/107

We have a file transfer app running on LTS 16.04 and it's constantly rejecting files of .xls

Deleted /companies/5412/FROM/RDMS_History.XLS Mime Type:application/CDFV2-unknown

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in file (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Ben Johnson (a03-6eo-chg) wrote :

This bug was fixed upstream almost a year ago. It would be nice to see this addressed in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, which is still on libmagic1 version 5.25.

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