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Fedora 20: FEDORA-2015-4556 Critical: Libzip Integer Overflow Issue

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Calendar Grey April 21, 2015
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The libzip library has received a crucial security update to rectify an integer overflow vulnerability found in zip archives on Fedora 20. This significant patch is now accessible.
CVE-2015-2331: integer overflow when processing ZIP archives (#1204676,#1204677)

Summary

libzip is a C library for reading, creating, and modifying zip archives. Files

can be added from data buffers, files, or compressed data copied directly from

other zip archives. Changes made without closing the archive can be reverted.

The API is documented by man pages.

Update Information:

CVE-2015-2331: integer overflow when processing ZIP archives (#1204676,#1204677)

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security advisory critical issue Fedora integer overflow libzip

Change Log

* Mon Mar 23 2015 Rex Dieter 0.11.2-5 - actually apply patch (using %autosetup) * Mon Mar 23 2015 Rex Dieter 0.11.2-4 - CVE-2015-2331: integer overflow when processing ZIP archives (#1204676,#1204677) * Sun Aug 17 2014 Fedora Release Engineering - 0.11.2-3 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_21_22_Mass_Rebuild * Sat Jun 7 2014 Fedora Release Engineering - 0.11.2-2 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_21_Mass_Rebuild * Thu Dec 19 2013 Remi Collet - 0.11.2-1 - update to 0.11.2 - run test during build

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1204676 - CVE-2015-2331 libzip: integer overflow when processing ZIP archives https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1204676

Update Instructions

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

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Name: libzip
Product: Fedora 20
Version: 0.11.2
Release: 5.fc20
URL: https://libzip.org/
Summary: C library for reading, creating, and modifying zip archives

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