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Fedora 11 FEDORA-2009-7755 Moderate: compat-wxGTK26 Integer Overflow

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Calendar Grey July 19, 2009
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The integer overflow vulnerability in the wxGTK library is fixed in the latest security patch. Follow these steps on Fedora to secure your system
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 integer overflow compat-wxGTK26 wxWidgets

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

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 11
Version: 2.6.4
Release: 10.fc11
URL: https://wxwidgets.org/
Summary: GTK2 port of the wxWidgets GUI library

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory software update Fedora DoS integer overflow compat-wxGTK26 wxWidgets

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