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Fedora 22: FEDORA-2016-5812 Moderate: Heap Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

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Calendar Grey April 18, 2015
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A critical memory corruption flaw in the REST library for Fedora 21 could let attackers execute code and gain system control. Update immediately
CVE-2015-2675 rest: memory corruption when using oauth because of implicit declaration of rest_proxy_call_get_url

Summary

This library was designed to make it easier to access web services that

claim to be "RESTful". A RESTful service should have urls that represent

remote objects, which methods can then be called on. The majority of services

don't actually adhere to this strict definition. Instead, their RESTful end

point usually has an API that is just simpler to use compared to other types

of APIs they may support (XML-RPC, for instance). It is this kind of API that

this library is attempting to support.

Update Information:

CVE-2015-2675 rest: memory corruption when using oauth because of implicit declaration of rest_proxy_call_get_url

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Topics Covered

security advisory Fedora memory corruption moderate severity rest library

Change Log

* Wed Mar 18 2015 Kalev Lember - 0.7.93-1 - Update to 0.7.93 - Tighten deps with the _isa macro - Don't manually require pkgconfig; rpmbuild generates this automatically - Use license macro for the COPYING file * Fri Jan 9 2015 Debarshi Ray 0.7.92-6 - Backport upstream patch to fix a memory error (GNOME #742644)

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1112497 - Please update to librest 0.7.91 in f20 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1112497 [ 2 ] Bug #1204682 - rest: memory corruption when using oauth because of implicit declaration of rest_proxy_call_get_url [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1204682

Update Instructions

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

Name: rest
Product: Fedora 21
Version: 0.7.93
Release: 1.fc21
URL: https://www.gnome.org/
Summary: A library for access to RESTful web services

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Topics Covered

security advisory Fedora memory corruption moderate severity rest library

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