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Fedora 25: Important Security Update for Libass with Critical Fixes

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Calendar Grey October 28, 2016
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Major release for libass tackles a variety of concerns and brings enhancements to Fedora 25.
Fixes CVE-2016-7969, CVE-2016-7970 and CVE-2016-7972 ---- Update to 0.13.3

Summary

Libass is a portable library for SSA/ASS subtitles rendering.

Update Information:

Fixes CVE-2016-7969, CVE-2016-7970 and CVE-2016-7972 ---- Update to 0.13.3. Contains various bugfixes.

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security advisory security issue critical software update bug fix libass Fedora 25

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1310363 - libass-0.13.3 is available https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1310363 [ 2 ] Bug #1381962 - CVE-2016-7969 CVE-2016-7970 CVE-2016-7971 CVE-2016-7972 libass: Multiple issues disclosed with 0.13.4 update [epel-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1381962 [ 3 ] Bug #1381961 - CVE-2016-7969 CVE-2016-7970 CVE-2016-7971 CVE-2016-7972 libass: Multiple issues disclosed with 0.13.4 update [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1381961 [ 4 ] Bug #1382196 - libass-0.13.4 is available https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1382196

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade libass' 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: libass
Product: Fedora 25
Version: 0.13.4
Release: 1.fc25
URL: https://github.com/libass
Summary: Portable library for SSA/ASS subtitles rendering

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security advisory security issue critical software update bug fix libass Fedora 25

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