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Fedora 11: 2009-9112 Moderate: Libmikmod Crash Resolved

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Explore the Fedora 11 patch notes concerning libmikmod, highlighting crucial resolutions for major stability problems.

Summary

libmikmod is a library used by the mikmod MOD music file player for

UNIX-like systems. Supported file formats include MOD, STM, S3M, MTM,

XM, ULT and IT.

ChangeLog:

* Fri Aug 28 2009 Jindrich Novy 3.2.0-5.beta2

- fix CVE-2007-6720 (#479829)

- fix CVE-2009-0179 (#479833)

References:

[ 1 ] Bug #479829 - CVE-2007-6720 mikmod: crash or abort when loading/playing multiple files with different number of channels

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=479829

[ 2 ] Bug #479833 - CVE-2009-0179 mikmod: crash when loading XM files

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=479833

This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use

su -c 'yum update libmikmod' at the command line.

For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",

available at .

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the

GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at

https://fedoraproject.org/security/

Fedora-package-announce mailing list

Fedora-package-announce@redhat.com

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/

Change Log

References

Update Instructions

Name: libmikmod
Product: Fedora 11
Version: 3.2.0
Release: 5.beta2.fc11
URL:
Summary: A MOD music file player library

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