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Fedora 25: FEDORA-2017-b236cb3316 Urgent: libXvMC Memory Leak Issue

fedora
Calendar Grey October 9, 2016
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora 24 has released an update for libXvMC that addresses a critical buffer overflow flaw; make sure to apply it via dnf
Security fix for CVE-2016-7953

Summary

X.Org X11 libXvMC runtime library

Update Information:

Security fix for CVE-2016-7953

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Topics Covered

security advisory fedora critical security fix buffer underflow libXvMC

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1381933 - CVE-2016-7953 libXvMC: Insufficient validation of server responses results in buffer underflow https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1381933

Update Instructions

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

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Name: libXvMC
Product: Fedora 24
Version: 1.0.10
Release: 1.fc24
URL: https://www.x.org/wiki/
Summary: X.Org X11 libXvMC runtime library

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Topics Covered

security advisory fedora critical security fix buffer underflow libXvMC

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