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Fedora 21: FEDORA-2015-71973a6d71 Moderate: Pixman Buffer Overflow

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Calendar Grey October 26, 2015
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora 21 users must stay informed about the new update for Pixman, which fixes a critical buffer overflow vulnerability. Run a yum update to apply the patch and protect your system
Security release to fix buffer overflow bug

Summary

Pixman is a pixel manipulation library for X and cairo.

Update Information:

Security release to fix buffer overflow bug

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate buffer overflow software update Fedora security release pixman

Change Log

References

Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2015-71973a6d71 2015-10-26 12:52:44.476839
Name : pixman Product : Fedora 21 Version : 0.32.8 Release : 1.fc21 URL : Summary : Pixel manipulation library Description : Pixman is a pixel manipulation library for X and cairo.

Update Instructions

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

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Name: pixman
Product: Fedora 21
Version: 0.32.8
Release: 1.fc21
URL:
Summary: Pixel manipulation library

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate buffer overflow software update Fedora security release pixman

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