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Fedora 23 FEDORA-2016-c848d48286 Critical Mingw-Poppler Buffer Overflow

fedora
Calendar Grey April 25, 2016
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The latest release for Fedora 23 tackles a critical vulnerability in mingw-poppler, enhancing both security measures and system performance.
This update fixes a heap buffer overflow.

Summary

MinGW Windows Poppler library.

Update Information:

This update fixes a heap buffer overflow.

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security advisory security update fedora buffer overflow critical mingw-poppler

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1326228 - CVE-2015-8868 mingw-poppler: poppler: heap buffer overflow [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1326228

Update Instructions

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

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Name: mingw-poppler
Product: Fedora 23
Version: 0.34.0
Release: 2.fc23
URL: http://poppler.freedesktop.org/
Summary: MinGW Windows Poppler library

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security advisory security update fedora buffer overflow critical mingw-poppler

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