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Fedora 26 Out-Of-Bounds Risk: Critical apr Fix 2017-2017-12613

fedora
Calendar Grey November 15, 2017
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The Fedora 27 release introduces a kernel patch aimed at resolving a security vulnerability with significant implications. Users should prioritize updating without delay.
Security fix + version update

Summary

The mission of the Apache Portable Runtime (APR) is to provide a

free library of C data structures and routines, forming a system

portability layer to as many operating systems as possible,

including Unices, MS Win32, BeOS and OS/2.

Security fix + version update

[ 1 ] Bug #1506524 - CVE-2017-12613 apr: Out-of-bounds array deref in apr_time_exp*() functions [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1506524

su -c 'dnf upgrade apr' 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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Update Instructions

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Product: Fedora 26
Version: 1.6.3
Release: 1.fc26
Summary: Apache Portable Runtime library

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