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Fedora 25: FEDORA-2017-b59943dcae Moderate: qbittorrent Security Fix

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Calendar Grey March 15, 2017
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Essential security patches for qbittorrent have been released in Fedora 25, addressing numerous vulnerabilities to safeguard users from potential threats.
Fix CVE-2017-6503 and CVE-2017-6504

Summary

A Bittorrent client using rb_libtorrent and a Qt4 Graphical User Interface.

It aims to be as fast as possible and to provide multi-OS, unicode support.

Update Information:

Fix CVE-2017-6503 and CVE-2017-6504

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory update Fedora remote code execution issue qt bittorrent

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1429530 - CVE-2017-6504 CVE-2017-6503 qbittorrent: Multiple security issues https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1429530

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade qbittorrent' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

Name: qbittorrent
Product: Fedora 25
Version: 3.3.11Release : 1.fc25
URL: https://www.qbittorrent.org/
Summary: A Bittorrent Client

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory update Fedora remote code execution issue qt bittorrent

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