Fedora 25 OpenSLP Security Patch: Memory Overflow Risk Mitigation
fedora
March 22, 2017
Fix possible overflow in SLPFoldWhiteSpace, CVE-2016-7567
Summary
Service Location Protocol is an IETF standards track protocol that
provides a framework to allow networking applications to discover the
existence, location, and configuration of networked services in
enterprise networks.
OpenSLP is an open source implementation of the SLPv2 protocol as defined
by RFC 2608 and RFC 2614.
Update Information:
Fix possible overflow in SLPFoldWhiteSpace, CVE-2016-7567
Topics Covered
Change Log
References
[ 1 ] Bug #1379988 - CVE-2016-7567 openslp: memory corruption due to possible overflow in SLPFoldWhiteSpace in common/slp_compare.c [fedora-all]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1379988
Update Instructions
This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade openslp' 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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Name: openslp
Product: Fedora 25
Version: 2.0.0
Release: 10.fc25
Summary: Open implementation of Service Location Protocol V2
Topics Covered
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