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Fedora 25 - 2016-505d7fe198 Critical: Libgit2 Memory Access Issue

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Calendar Grey October 14, 2016
Dist Fedora Esm H88
An essential security patch for Fedora 25's libgit2 addresses memory handling vulnerabilities associated with CVE-2016-8568 and CVE-2016-8569.
Security fix for CVE-2016-8568, CVE-2016-8569

Summary

libgit2 is a portable, pure C implementation of the Git core methods

provided as a re-entrant linkable library with a solid API, allowing

you to write native speed custom Git applications in any language

with bindings.

Update Information:

Security fix for CVE-2016-8568, CVE-2016-8569

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Topics Covered

security advisory fedora update critical memory access libgit2

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1383212 - CVE-2016-8568 CVE-2016-8569 libgit2: Invalid memory accesses parsing object files [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1383212

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update libgit2' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .

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Name: libgit2
Product: Fedora 25
Version: 0.24.2
Release: 2.fc25
URL: https://libgit2.org/
Summary: C implementation of the Git core methods as a library with a solid API

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Topics Covered

security advisory fedora update critical memory access libgit2

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