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Fedora 22 libmaxminddb Critical Segfault Vuln FEDORA-2016-c14cf5e34a

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Calendar Grey April 7, 2016
Scroller Fedora Esm H88
Fedora 22 releases an update that resolves issues concerning the libmaxminddb library while bolstering security protocols significantly.
new upstream release ---- rebase to new upstream version

Summary

The package contains libmaxminddb library.

Update Information:

new upstream release ---- rebase to new upstream version

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Topics Covered

security advisory fedora critical software update segmentation fault libmaxminddb

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1283921 - libmaxminddb: Missing bounds checking and verification of data type causes segfault [epel-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1283921 [ 2 ] Bug #1283920 - libmaxminddb: Missing bounds checking and verification of data type causes segfault [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1283920 [ 3 ] Bug #1320764 - libmaxminddb-1.2.0 is available https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1320764

Update Instructions

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

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Name: libmaxminddb
Product: Fedora 22
Version: 1.2.0
Release: 1.fc22
URL: https://maxmind.github.io/libmaxminddb/
Summary: C library for the MaxMind DB file format

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Topics Covered

security advisory fedora critical software update segmentation fault libmaxminddb

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