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Fedora 22: 2015-5938 Critical Update for JLine DoS Vulnerability

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Important security patch for jline resolving CVE-2013-1752 issue in Fedora 22, enhancing functionality and protection.
Security fix for CVE-2013-1752 and update to latest upstream release of jython.

Summary

JLine is a Java library for handling console input. It is similar

in functionality to BSD editline and GNU readline. People familiar

with the readline/editline capabilities for modern shells (such as

bash and tcsh) will find most of the command editing features of

JLine to be familiar.

Update Information:

Security fix for CVE-2013-1752 and update to latest upstream release of jython.

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Topics Covered

security advisory update critical Fedora DoS JLine console input

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1046174 - CVE-2013-1752 python: multiple unbound readline() DoS flaws in python stdlib https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1046174

Update Instructions

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

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Name: jline
Product: Fedora 22
Version: 2.12.1
Release: 1.fc22
URL: https://github.com/jline/jline2
Summary: JLine is a Java library for handling console input

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Topics Covered

security advisory update critical Fedora DoS JLine console input

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