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Fedora: 24 Critical Update for perl-DBD-MySQL Out-of-Bounds Read

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Calendar Grey November 24, 2016
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Critical security patch for Fedora 24 addresses buffer overflow vulnerability in perl-DBD-Postgres. Ensure you update promptly for improved protection.
Security fix for CVE-2016-1249

Summary

DBD::mysql is the Perl5 Database Interface driver for the MySQL database. In

other words: DBD::mysql is an interface between the Perl programming language

and the MySQL programming API that comes with the MySQL relational database

management system.

Update Information:

Security fix for CVE-2016-1249

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Topics Covered

security advisory Fedora critical fix out-of-bounds read perl-DBD-MySQL

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1395591 - CVE-2016-1249 perl-DBD-MySQL: Out-of-bounds read when using server-side prepared statement support https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1395591

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade perl-DBD-MySQL' 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: perl-DBD-MySQL
Product: Fedora 24
Version: 4.039
Release: 1.fc24
URL: Summary : A MySQL interface for Perl

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security advisory Fedora critical fix out-of-bounds read perl-DBD-MySQL

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