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Fedora 21: Security Advisory for mingw-libzip Integer Overflow Issue

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Crucial update for mingw-libzip tackles integer overflow security flaws in Fedora 21 revamps.
Security fix for CVE-2015-2331.

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:

Security fix for CVE-2015-2331.

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Change Log

* Mon Mar 23 2015 Sandro Mani - 0.11.2-3 - CVE-2015-2331: integer overflow when processing ZIP archives (#1204676,#1204677)

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 mingw-libzip' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .

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Name: mingw-libzip
Product: Fedora 21
Version: 0.11.2
Release: 3.fc21
URL: https://libzip.org/
Summary: C library for reading, creating, and modifying zip archives

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