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Fedora 24: 2017-e2480c7f50 Moderate: erlang Heap Buffer Overflow

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Calendar Grey March 31, 2017
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Please obtain the newest security patch for Erlang in Fedora 24 that resolves heap-buffer overflow vulnerabilities linked to CVE-2016-10253.
Security fix for CVE-2016-10253

Summary

Erlang is a general-purpose programming language and runtime

environment. Erlang has built-in support for concurrency, distribution

and fault tolerance. Erlang is used in several large telecommunication

systems from Ericsson.

Update Information:

Security fix for CVE-2016-10253

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1433986 - CVE-2016-10253 erlang: Heap-buffer overflow via regular expressions [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1433986

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade erlang' 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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Name: erlang
Product: Fedora 24
Version: 18.3.4.5
Release: 2.fc24
Summary: General-purpose programming language and runtime environment

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