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Fedora: mupdf Security Update Critical Fix for CVE-2016-6265

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Calendar Grey March 1, 2017
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Update your MuPDF to the latest version on Fedora 24 to fix the critical CVE-2016-6265 security vulnerability and enhance PDF handling
Security fix for CVE-2016-6265

Summary

MuPDF is a lightweight PDF viewer and toolkit written in portable C.

The renderer in MuPDF is tailored for high quality anti-aliased

graphics. MuPDF renders text with metrics and spacing accurate to

within fractions of a pixel for the highest fidelity in reproducing

the look of a printed page on screen.

MuPDF has a small footprint. A binary that includes the standard

Roman fonts is only one megabyte. A build with full CJK support

(including an Asian font) is approximately five megabytes.

MuPDF has support for all non-interactive PDF 1.7 features, and the

toolkit provides a simple API for accessing the internal structures of

the PDF document. Example code for navigating interactive links and

bookmarks, encrypting PDF files, extracting fonts, images, and

searchable text, and rendering pages to image files is provided.

Update Information:

Security fix for CVE-2016-6265

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Topics Covered

security advisory software update Fedora critical fix use after free mupdf

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1359108 - CVE-2016-6265 mupdf: Use after free vulnerability in pdf_xref.c https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1359108

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade mupdf' 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: mupdf
Product: Fedora 24
Version: 1.10a
Release: 1.fc24
URL: https://mupdf.com/
Summary: A lightweight PDF viewer and toolkit

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Topics Covered

security advisory software update Fedora critical fix use after free mupdf

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