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Fedora 25: FEDORA-2017-b97f9d82dc Moderate: libmspack Buffer Overflow

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Calendar Grey October 8, 2017
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora security announcement regarding libmspack addressing potential buffer overflow and over-read vulnerabilities to enhance system safety.
Security fix for CVE-2017-6419 and CVE-2017-11423

Summary

The purpose of libmspack is to provide both compression and decompression of

some loosely related file formats used by Microsoft.

Security fix for CVE-2017-6419 and CVE-2017-11423

[ 1 ] Bug #1483909 - CVE-2017-6419 libmspack, clamav: heap-based buffer overflow in mspack/lzxd.c

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1483909

[ 2 ] Bug #1472776 - CVE-2017-11423 libmspack, clamav: Stack-based buffer over-read in cabd_read_string function

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1472776

su -c 'dnf upgrade libmspack' at the command line.

For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the

GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at

https://fedoraproject.org/security/

package-announce mailing list -- package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org

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Change Log

References

Update Instructions

Product: Fedora 25
Version: 0.6
Release: 0.1.alpha.fc25
Summary: Library for CAB and related files compression and decompression

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