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Fedora: 2016-616a35205b Critical: Libgit2 Memory Access Issues

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Calendar Grey October 20, 2016
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The latest Libgit2 patch resolves serious vulnerabilities CVE-2016-8568 and CVE-2016-8569 for Fedora 23 users. You can install it using the yum package manager.
Security fix for CVE-2016-8568, CVE-2016-8569

Summary

libgit2 is a portable, pure C implementation of the Git core methods

provided as a re-entrant linkable library with a solid API, allowing

you to write native speed custom Git applications in any language

with bindings.

Update Information:

Security fix for CVE-2016-8568, CVE-2016-8569

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Topics Covered

security advisory software update Fedora security fix memory access libgit2

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1383212 - CVE-2016-8568 CVE-2016-8569 libgit2: Invalid memory accesses parsing object files [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1383212

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update libgit2' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .

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Name: libgit2
Product: Fedora 23
Version: 0.23.4
Release: 2.fc23
URL: https://libgit2.org/
Summary: C implementation of the Git core methods as a library with a solid API

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Topics Covered

security advisory software update Fedora security fix memory access libgit2

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