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Fedora 25: FEDORA-2016-ade20198ff Moderate: libXrender Buffer Overflow

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Calendar Grey October 10, 2016
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Essential patches for libXrender in Fedora 25 bolster defenses against potential out-of-bounds and buffer overflow vulnerabilities.
Security fix for CVE-2016-7949, CVE-2016-7950

Summary

X.Org X11 libXrender runtime library

Update Information:

Security fix for CVE-2016-7949, CVE-2016-7950

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Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow software update Fedora moderate severity out-of-bounds libXrender

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1381927 - CVE-2016-7949 libXrender: Insufficient validation of server responses results in overflow of previously reserved memory https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1381927 [ 2 ] Bug #1381928 - CVE-2016-7950 libXrender: Insufficient validation of server responses results out-of-bounds write in XRenderQueryFilters https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1381928

Update Instructions

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

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Name: libXrender
Product: Fedora 25
Version: 0.9.10
Release: 1.fc25
URL: https://www.x.org/wiki/
Summary: X.Org X11 libXrender runtime library

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow software update Fedora moderate severity out-of-bounds libXrender

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