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Fedora 23 libksba Security Update: Minor Memory Issue Resolved

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Calendar Grey September 7, 2016
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Ubuntu 20.04 resolves a buffer overflow vulnerability in custom images through a libpng update to enhance system safety.
Minor security update from upstream

Summary

KSBA (pronounced Kasbah) is a library to make X.509 certificates as

well as the CMS easily accessible by other applications. Both

specifications are building blocks of S/MIME and TLS.

Update Information:

Minor security update from upstream

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Topics Covered

security advisory Fedora memory issue libksba upstream update

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1369814 - libksba: Unproportional amount of memory allocated when parsing crafted certificates https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1369814

Update Instructions

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

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Name: libksba
Product: Fedora 23
Version: 1.3.5
Release: 1.fc23
URL: http://www.gnupg.org/
Summary: CMS and X.509 library

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Topics Covered

security advisory Fedora memory issue libksba upstream update

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