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Fedora 11: FEDORA-2009-5518 Moderate: libwmf Use-After-Free Error

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Calendar Grey May 27, 2009
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Upgrade for Fedora 11 rectifies a buffer overflow vulnerability in the libwmf library, improving both security measures and overall performance.
CVE-2009-1364 libwmf: embedded gd use-after-free error

Summary

A library for reading and converting Windows MetaFile vector graphics (WMF).

Update Information:

CVE-2009-1364 libwmf: embedded gd use-after-free error

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow Fedora Moderate libwmf use-after-free vector graphics

Change Log

* Tue May 26 2009 Caolán McNamara - 0.2.8.4-20 - Resolves: CVE-2009-1364

References


[ 1 ] Bug #496864 - CVE-2009-1364 libwmf: embedded gd use-after-free error https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=496864

Update Instructions

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

Name: libwmf
Product: Fedora 11
Version: 0.2.8.4
Release: 20.fc11
URL: https://wvware.sourceforge.net/libwmf.html
Summary: Windows MetaFile Library

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow Fedora Moderate libwmf use-after-free vector graphics

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