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Fedora 25: 2017-09-26 - Critical: Libbson Buffer Over Read

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Calendar Grey September 27, 2017
Dist Fedora Esm H88
This update resolves a critical issue in libbson related to processing an unfilled code input, enhancing overall performance and safeguarding enhancements.
This release fixes a crash when parsing an empty code string of a codewscope type.

Summary

This is a library providing useful routines related to building, parsing,

and iterating BSON documents .

This release fixes a crash when parsing an empty code string of a codewscope

type.

[ 1 ] Bug #1494401 - CVE-2017-14227 libbson: Heap based buffer over read in the bson_utf8_validate function

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1494401

su -c 'dnf upgrade libbson' 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: 1.3.5
Release: 4.fc25
Summary: Building, parsing, and iterating BSON documents

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