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Fedora 25: 2017-80763c8c03 Moderate: Collectd Infinite Loop

fedora
Calendar Grey April 25, 2017
Dist Fedora Esm H88
To resolve the infinite loop issue in collectd post-Fedora Update, check for recent patches in the repository and consider reverting to a stable version if necessary
Fix CVE-2017-7401 collectd: Infinite loop due to incorrect interaction of parse_packet() and parse_part_sign_sha256() functions

Summary

collectd is a daemon which collects system performance statistics periodically

and provides mechanisms to store the values in a variety of ways,

for example in RRD files.

Fix CVE-2017-7401 collectd: Infinite loop due to incorrect interaction of

parse_packet() and parse_part_sign_sha256() functions. This is a bug in the

network plugin.

[ 1 ] Bug #1439674 - CVE-2017-7401 collectd: Infinite loop due to incorrect interaction of parse_packet() and parse_part_sign_sha256() functions

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1439674

su -c 'dnf upgrade collectd' 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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Product: Fedora 25
Version: 5.7.1
Release: 3.fc25
Summary: Statistics collection daemon for filling RRD files

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