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Fedora 25: 2017-07d308fd81 Moderate: Calibre Bug Fix Update

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Calendar Grey February 8, 2017
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The latest Calibre security patch for Fedora 25 resolves issue #1409216, introducing version 2.78.0 to improve e-book library administration.
Update to 2.78.0

Summary

Calibre is meant to be a complete e-library solution. It includes library

management, format conversion, news feeds to ebook conversion as well as

e-book reader sync features.

Calibre is primarily a ebook cataloging program. It manages your ebook

collection for you. It is designed around the concept of the logical book,

i.e. a single entry in the database that may correspond to ebooks in several

formats. It also supports conversion to and from a dozen different ebook

formats.

Supported input formats are: MOBI, LIT, PRC, EPUB, CHM, ODT, HTML, CBR, CBZ,

RTF, TXT, PDF and LRS.

Update Information:

Update to 2.78.0. Fixes bug #1409216

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Topics Covered

security advisory software update Fedora bug fix calibre library management e-book conversion

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1417556 - CVE-2016-10187 calibre: Javascript in the book can access files on the computer using XMLHttpRequest https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1417556

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade calibre' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

Name: calibre
Product: Fedora 25
Version: 2.78.0
Release: 1.fc25
URL: https://calibre-ebook.com/
Summary: E-book converter and library manager

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Topics Covered

security advisory software update Fedora bug fix calibre library management e-book conversion

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