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Fedora libmaxminddb Critical Segmentation Fault Advisory 215237

fedora
Calendar Grey April 7, 2016
Scroller Fedora Esm H88
The recent patch for libmaxminddb resolves an important segmentation fault problem in Fedora, leading to enhanced reliability and safety.
new upstream release ---- rebase to new upstream version

Summary

The package contains libmaxminddb library.

Update Information:

new upstream release ---- rebase to new upstream version

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Topics Covered

security advisory fedora update critical segmentation fault libmaxminddb

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1283921 - libmaxminddb: Missing bounds checking and verification of data type causes segfault [epel-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1283921 [ 2 ] Bug #1283920 - libmaxminddb: Missing bounds checking and verification of data type causes segfault [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1283920 [ 3 ] Bug #1320764 - libmaxminddb-1.2.0 is available https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1320764

Update Instructions

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

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Name: libmaxminddb
Product: Fedora 24
Version: 1.2.0
Release: 1.fc24
URL: https://maxmind.github.io/libmaxminddb/
Summary: C library for the MaxMind DB file format

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security advisory fedora update critical segmentation fault libmaxminddb

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