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Fedora 23: FEDORA-2016-e123d4567f Severe: MINGW-JPEG Buffer Overflow Risk

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Calendar Grey January 3, 2016
Dist Fedora Esm H88
An important security patch for Fedora 22's mingw-giflib resolves a heap overflow vulnerability.
Security fix for CVE-2015-7555.

Summary

MinGW Windows giflib library.

Update Information:

Security fix for CVE-2015-7555.

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Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow Fedora critical update mingw-giflib

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1293372 - CVE-2015-7555 mingw-giflib: giflib: Heap-based buffer overflow in giffix utility [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1293372

Update Instructions

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

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Name: mingw-giflib
Product: Fedora 22
Version: 5.0.5
Release: 4.fc22
URL: https://sourceforge.net/projects/giflib/
Summary: MinGW Windows giflib library

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Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow Fedora critical update mingw-giflib

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