Fedora 23: FEDORA-2015-b960ca78bf Critical: Memory Leak in libtevent
fedora
December 18, 2015
Fixes CVE-2015-5330
Summary
Tevent is an event system based on the talloc memory management library.
Tevent has support for many event types, including timers, signals, and
the classic file descriptor events.
Tevent also provide helpers to deal with asynchronous code providing the
tevent_req (Tevent Request) functions.
Update Information:
Fixes CVE-2015-5330
Topics Covered
Change Log
References
[ 1 ] Bug #1292070 - CVE-2015-5330 libldb: samba: Remote memory read in Samba LDAP server [fedora-all]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1292070
Update Instructions
This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update libtevent' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .
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Name: libtevent
Product: Fedora 23
Version: 0.9.26
Release: 1.fc23
URL: /
Summary: The tevent library
Topics Covered
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