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Fedora 25: 2017-f0b31bc9c5 Critical: mingw-libzip Memory Corruption

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New Update Fixes Major Security Issue in mingw-libzip, Tackling CVE-2017-12858. Protect Your System by Installing the Most Recent Version.
This update fixes CVE-2017-12858.

Summary

libzip is a C library for reading, creating, and modifying zip archives. Files

can be added from data buffers, files, or compressed data copied directly from

other zip archives. Changes made without closing the archive can be reverted.

The API is documented by man pages.

This update fixes CVE-2017-12858.

[ 1 ] Bug #1484514 - CVE-2017-12858 libzip: Double free in _zip_dirent_read function in zip_dirent.c

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1484514

su -c 'dnf upgrade mingw-libzip' 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/

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Product: Fedora 25
Version: 1.1.3
Release: 2.fc25
Summary: C library for reading, creating, and modifying zip archives

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