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Fedora 25: libXfont Critical Update for Input Validation Issues

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Calendar Grey October 25, 2017
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Important patch released for libXfont resolves lack of adequate checks in Fedora 25, mitigating possible security vulnerabilities.
Security fix for CVE-2017-13720 and CVE-2017-13722

Summary

X.Org X11 libXfont runtime library

Security fix for CVE-2017-13720 and CVE-2017-13722

[ 1 ] Bug #1500693 - CVE-2017-13722 libXfont: Insufficient input validation in pcfread.c

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1500693

[ 2 ] Bug #1500690 - CVE-2017-13720 libXfont: Insufficient input validation in fontdir.c

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1500690

su -c 'dnf upgrade libXfont' 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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https://fedoraproject.org/security/

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Product: Fedora 25
Version: 1.5.2
Release: 5.fc25
Summary: X.Org X11 libXfont runtime library

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