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Fedora 11: FEDORA-2009-8336 Critical Allocator Alignment Fix

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Calendar Grey August 7, 2009
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Important patch for Fedora 11 focusing on addressing memory handler alignment issues in the apr library, improving overall system protection.
CVE-2009-2412: allocator alignment fixes Full details here: https://downloads.apache.org/apr/patches/

Summary

The mission of the Apache Portable Runtime (APR) is to provide a

free library of C data structures and routines, forming a system

portability layer to as many operating systems as possible,

including Unices, MS Win32, BeOS and OS/2.

Update Information:

CVE-2009-2412: allocator alignment fixes Full details here: https://downloads.apache.org/apr/patches/

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory critical Fedora allocator fix Apache Runtime

Change Log

* Thu Aug 6 2009 Bojan Smojver - 1.3.8-1 - bump up to 1.3.8 - CVE-2009-2412 - allocator alignment fixes * Mon Jun 8 2009 Bojan Smojver - 1.3.5-1 - bump up to 1.3.5

References


[ 1 ] Bug #515698 - CVE-2009-2412 apr, apr-util: Integer overflows in memory pool (apr) and relocatable memory (apr-util) management https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=515698

Update Instructions

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

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Name: apr
Product: Fedora 11
Version: 1.3.8
Release: 1.fc11
URL: https://apr.apache.org/
Summary: Apache Portable Runtime library

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory critical Fedora allocator fix Apache Runtime

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