Fedora 24: calibre Security Update
Summary
Calibre is meant to be a complete e-library solution. It includes library
management, format conversion, news feeds to ebook conversion as well as
e-book reader sync features.
Calibre is primarily a ebook cataloging program. It manages your ebook
collection for you. It is designed around the concept of the logical book,
i.e. a single entry in the database that may correspond to ebooks in several
formats. It also supports conversion to and from a dozen different ebook
formats.
Supported input formats are: MOBI, LIT, PRC, EPUB, CHM, ODT, HTML, CBR, CBZ,
RTF, TXT, PDF and LRS.
Update Information:
Update to 2.78.0. Fixes bug #1409216
Change Log
References
[ 1 ] Bug #1417556 - CVE-2016-10187 calibre: Javascript in the book can access files on the computer using XMLHttpRequest https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1417556
Update Instructions
This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade calibre' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html
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