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Fedora 24: FEDORA-2016-4529e034ca Moderate: Mingw-Freeimage Code Exec

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Calendar Grey October 12, 2016
Dist Fedora Esm H88
A vulnerability notification concerning CVE-2016-5684 has been released for mingw-freeimage on Fedora 24, enhancing the integrity of code execution.
Security fix for CVE-2016-5684

Summary

MinGW Windows freeimage library.

Update Information:

Security fix for CVE-2016-5684

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Topics Covered

security advisory Fedora code execution mingw-freeimage XMP issue

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1381517 - CVE-2016-5684 freeimage: XMP Image Handling Code Execution Vulnerability https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1381517

Update Instructions

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

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Name: mingw-freeimage
Product: Fedora 24
Version: 3.17.0
Release: 4.fc24
URL: https://freeimage.sourceforge.io/
Summary: MinGW Windows freeimage library

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory Fedora code execution mingw-freeimage XMP issue

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