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Fedora 10: 2009-8595 Moderate: Fix Htmldoc Scanf Overflow Issues

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Calendar Grey August 31, 2009
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Crucial announcement regarding Fedora 10 resolves scanf problems and eliminates FTBFS challenges in the htmldoc application.
Fix scanf issues found by Gentoo

Summary

HTMLDOC converts HTML source files into indexed HTML, PostScript, or

Portable Document Format (PDF) files that can be viewed online or

printed. With no options a HTML document is produced on stdout.

The second form of HTMLDOC reads HTML source from stdin, which allows

you to use HTMLDOC as a filter.

The third form of HTMLDOC launches a graphical interface that allows

you to change options and generate documents interactively.

Update Information:

Fix scanf issues found by Gentoo. Fix FTBFS on Fedora 12.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate update buffer overflow Fedora software fix htmldoc

Change Log

* Thu Aug 13 2009 Adam Goode - 1.8.27-8 - Fix limitation of -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 (#511520) - Fix scanf overflows (#512513)

References


[ 1 ] Bug #512513 - HTMLDOC: Stack-based buffer overflow when setting custom page output size https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=512513

Update Instructions

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

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Name: htmldoc
Product: Fedora 10
Version: 1.8.27
Release: 8.fc10
URL: https://www.htmldoc.org/
Summary: Converter from HTML into indexed HTML, PostScript, or PDF

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate update buffer overflow Fedora software fix htmldoc

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