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Fedora 22: LIBTEVENT Security Advisory CVE-2015-5330 Remote Access Risk

fedora
Calendar Grey December 18, 2015
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora's libtsevent security patch resolves local memory access vulnerabilities associated with CVE-2015-5330 to improve system protection.
Fixes CVE-2015-5330

Summary

Tevent is an event system based on the talloc memory management library.

Tevent has support for many event types, including timers, signals, and

the classic file descriptor events.

Tevent also provide helpers to deal with asynchronous code providing the

tevent_req (Tevent Request) functions.

Update Information:

Fixes CVE-2015-5330

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory security issue critical Fedora remote access memory exploit libtevent

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1292070 - CVE-2015-5330 libldb: samba: Remote memory read in Samba LDAP server [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1292070

Update Instructions

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

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Name: libtevent
Product: Fedora 22
Version: 0.9.26
Release: 1.fc22
URL: /
Summary: The tevent library

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue critical Fedora remote access memory exploit libtevent

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