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Fedora 23 Guile Update: Essential Fixes for Critical HTTP Vulnerabilities

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Calendar Grey October 22, 2016
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Recent Ubuntu patch addresses severe vulnerabilities in Python libraries. Keep your system protected and current by applying this update.
Update to the latest stable release, which fixes CVE-2016-8605 and CVE-2016-8606.

Summary

GUILE (GNU's Ubiquitous Intelligent Language for Extension) is a library

implementation of the Scheme programming language, written in C. GUILE

provides a machine-independent execution platform that can be linked in

as a library during the building of extensible programs.

Install the guile package if you'd like to add extensibility to programs

that you are developing.

Update Information:

Update to the latest stable release, which fixes CVE-2016-8605 and CVE-2016-8606.

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Topics Covered

security advisory Fedora critical fix HTTP attack guile thread-unsafe

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1383966 - CVE-2016-8605 guile: Thread-unsafe umask modification https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1383966 [ 2 ] Bug #1383972 - CVE-2016-8606 guile: REPL server vulnerable to HTTP inter-protocol attacks https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1383972

Update Instructions

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

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Name: guile
Product: Fedora 23
Version: 2.0.13
Release: 1.fc23
URL: http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/
Summary: A GNU implementation of Scheme for application extensibility

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Topics Covered

security advisory Fedora critical fix HTTP attack guile thread-unsafe

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