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Fedora 23 libmaxminddb Significant Segmentation Fault Problem 215242

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Calendar Grey April 7, 2016
Scroller Fedora Esm H88
The latest libmaxminddb update for Fedora fixes critical issues that were leading to segmentation faults due to inadequate boundary checks. Discover additional details about this version.
new upstream release ---- rebase to new upstream version

Summary

The package contains libmaxminddb library.

Update Information:

new upstream release ---- rebase to new upstream version

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security advisory fedora update important segmentation fault libmaxminddb

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1283921 - libmaxminddb: Missing bounds checking and verification of data type causes segfault [epel-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1283921 [ 2 ] Bug #1283920 - libmaxminddb: Missing bounds checking and verification of data type causes segfault [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1283920 [ 3 ] Bug #1320764 - libmaxminddb-1.2.0 is available https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1320764

Update Instructions

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

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Name: libmaxminddb
Product: Fedora 23
Version: 1.2.0
Release: 1.fc23
URL: https://maxmind.github.io/libmaxminddb/
Summary: C library for the MaxMind DB file format

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Topics Covered

security advisory fedora update important segmentation fault libmaxminddb

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