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Fedora 24 D-Bus Update: FEDORA-2016-0a4dc821d5 Moderate Format String Issue

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Calendar Grey October 13, 2016
Dist Fedora Esm H88
An enhancement for Fedora 24 has been released to fix a vulnerability in dbus related to format strings, improving security for system communications.
Update to 1.11.6

Summary

D-BUS is a system for sending messages between applications. It is

used both for the system-wide message bus service, and as a

per-user-login-session messaging facility.

Update Information:

Update to 1.11.6

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate fedora software update format string issue dbus system messaging

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1383657 - dbus: Format string vulnerability https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1383657

Update Instructions

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

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Name: dbus
Product: Fedora 24
Version: 1.11.6
Release: 1.fc24
URL: https://https://
Summary: D-BUS message bus

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate fedora software update format string issue dbus system messaging

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