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Fedora 24: FEDORA-2016-5aa206bd16 Critical: libXv Access Control

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Calendar Grey October 9, 2016
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Important announcement regarding Fedora 24 remedying CVE-2016-5407 related to access control vulnerabilities in libXv.
Security fix for CVE-2016-5407

Summary

X.Org X11 libXv runtime library

Update Information:

Security fix for CVE-2016-5407

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Topics Covered

security advisory fedora critical access control libxv

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1381931 - CVE-2016-5407 libXv: Insufficient validation of server responses results in out-of bounds accesses https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1381931

Update Instructions

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

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Name: libXv
Product: Fedora 24
Version: 1.0.11
Release: 1.fc24
URL: https://www.x.org/wiki/
Summary: X.Org X11 libXv runtime library

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Topics Covered

security advisory fedora critical access control libxv

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