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Fedora 25 Compat-Guile18 Critical: CVE-2016-8605 Thread Issue

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Calendar Grey January 12, 2017
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The compat-guile18 update addresses CVE-2016-8605, bolstering security measures in Fedora 25 while delivering crucial patches.
Security fix for CVE-2016-8605

Summary

GUILE (GNU's Ubiquitous Intelligent Language for Extension) is a library

implementation of the Scheme programming language, written in C. GUILE

provides a machine-independent execution platform that can be linked in

as a library during the building of extensible programs.

Install the compat-guile18 package if you'd like to add extensibility to

programs that you are developing.

Update Information:

Security fix for CVE-2016-8605

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Topics Covered

security advisory fedora critical fix compat-guile18 thread-unsafe issue

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1383966 - CVE-2016-8605 guile: Thread-unsafe umask modification https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1383966

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade compat-guile18' 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: compat-guile18
Product: Fedora 25
Version: 1.8.8
Release: 14.fc25
URL: http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/
Summary: A GNU implementation of Scheme for application extensibility

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Topics Covered

security advisory fedora critical fix compat-guile18 thread-unsafe issue

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