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Fedora 25: Critical Libwmf Double Free Bug Update Notification

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Calendar Grey September 20, 2017
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Critical patch released for Fedora 25's libwmf resolves vulnerabilities outlined in the security advisory from 2017.
- Related: CVE-2017-6362 remove problematic function

Summary

A library for reading and converting Windows MetaFile vector graphics (WMF).

- Related: CVE-2017-6362 remove problematic function

[ 1 ] Bug #1489844 - CVE-2017-6362 libwmf: gd: Double free in the gdImagePngPtr function [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1489844

su -c 'dnf upgrade libwmf' 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: 0.2.8.4
Release: 53.fc25
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Summary: Windows MetaFile Library

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