Fedora 25 jbig2dec Security Update CVE-2017-9216 Moderate Threat

jbig2dec is a decoder implementation of the JBIG2 image compression format.

JBIG2 is designed for lossy or lossless encoding of 'bilevel' (1-bit

monochrome) images at moderately high resolution, and in particular scanned

paper documents. In this domain it is very efficient, offering compression

ratios on the order of 100:1.

update to 0.14 (bugfix release CVE-2017-9216)

[ 1 ] Bug #1456730 - CVE-2017-9216 jbig2dec: Null pointer dereference in jbig2_huffman_get() [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1456730

su -c 'dnf upgrade jbig2dec' 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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https://fedoraproject.org/security/

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