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Ubuntu: 2010-1234 Major: GTK+ Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

fedora
Calendar Grey July 22, 2009
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The latest wxGTK update for Fedora 10 resolves a significant buffer overflow vulnerability tied to the PNG image decoder.
added fix for CVE-2009-2369

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 fix for CVE-2009-2369

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory critical issue Fedora DoS software fix integer overflow wxGTK

Change Log

* Wed Jul 15 2009 Dan Horák - 2.8.10-2 - add fix for CVE-2009-2369 (#511279) * Fri May 22 2009 Dan Horak - 2.8.10-1 - update to 2.8.10

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 wxGTK' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .

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Name: wxGTK
Product: Fedora 10
Version: 2.8.10
Release: 2.fc10
URL: https://wxwidgets.org/
Summary: GTK2 port of the wxWidgets GUI library

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory critical issue Fedora DoS software fix integer overflow wxGTK

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