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Fedora: 2016-cc7f19cb5b Moderate: Jansson Stack Exhaustion Fix

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Calendar Grey September 28, 2016
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Upgrade to Jansson 2.9 in Fedora 23, fixing security vulnerabilities concerning stack overflow issues.
Update to Jansson 2.9

Summary

Small library for parsing and writing JSON documents.

Update Information:

Update to Jansson 2.9

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Topics Covered

security advisory update Fedora stack exhaustion jansson

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1332202 - CVE-2016-4425 jansson: stack exhaustion parsing a JSON file [epel-6] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1332202 [ 2 ] Bug #1332201 - CVE-2016-4425 jansson: stack exhaustion parsing a JSON file [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1332201 [ 3 ] Bug #1375710 - Rebase jansson + patch https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1375710 [ 4 ] Bug #1150479 - jansson-2.9 is available https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1150479

Update Instructions

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

Name: jansson
Product: Fedora 23
Version: 2.9
Release: 1.fc23
URL: https://github.com/akheron/jansson
Summary: C library for encoding, decoding and manipulating JSON data

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Topics Covered

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