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Fedora: 2009-7763 Moderate: compat-wxGTK26 DoS Security Advisory

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Calendar Grey July 19, 2009
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Patch applied to compat-wxGTK26 addresses the security vulnerability CVE-2009-2369 found in Fedora 10 impacting the GTK2 version.
Added rediffed fix for CVE-2009-2369 as found in wxGTK 2.8.10

Summary

wxWidgets/GTK2 is the GTK2 port of the C++ cross-platform wxWidgets

GUI library, offering classes for all common GUI controls as well as a

comprehensive set of helper classes for most common application tasks,

ranging from networking to HTML display and image manipulation.

Update Information:

Added rediffed fix for CVE-2009-2369 as found in wxGTK 2.8.10

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory software update Fedora DoS compat-wxGTK26

Change Log

* Wed Jul 15 2009 Michael Schwendt - 2.6.4-10 - apply rediffed fix for CVE-2009-2369 (#511279) * Thu Jun 11 2009 Michael Schwendt - 2.6.4-9 - glib2 2.21.1's gio in Rawhide F-12 introduces a GSocket that conflicts with wxGTK's GSocket class (gsocket.h): reduce the glib/gdk headers that are included during build to avoid conflicting redefinitions * Sun Jun 7 2009 Michael Schwendt - 2.6.4-8 - target sparcv9 => setup-sparc.h * Wed Mar 25 2009 Michael Schwendt - 2.6.4-7 - add check section with tiny compilation check for wx/setup.h wrapper * Tue Mar 24 2009 Michael Schwendt - 2.6.4-6 - resolve multi-arch conflict in wx/setup.h * Tue Feb 24 2009 Fedora Release Engineering - 2.6.4-5 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_11_Mass_Rebuild * Mon Dec 22 2008 Michael Schwendt - 2.6.4-4 - remove wxGTK{,-devel,-gl} Obsoletes since the wxGTK2 (2.8.x) pkg set in Fedora has been renamed to wxGTK

References


[ 1 ] Bug #511279 - wxGTK: Integer overflow in JPEG image decoder (DoS, ACE) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=511279

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update compat-wxGTK26' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .

Name: compat-wxGTK26
Product: Fedora 10
Version: 2.6.4
Release: 10.fc10
URL: https://wxwidgets.org/
Summary: GTK2 port of the wxWidgets GUI library

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory software update Fedora DoS compat-wxGTK26

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