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Fedora 26: 2017-cbed8f4169 Critical: Erlang Heap Overflow Exploit

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Calendar Grey April 1, 2017
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora 26 erlang patch resolves a severe memory overflow vulnerability identified as CVE-2016-10253. Find out more information here.
Security fix for CVE-2016-10253 ---- * Ver

Summary

Erlang is a general-purpose programming language and runtime

environment. Erlang has built-in support for concurrency, distribution

and fault tolerance. Erlang is used in several large telecommunication

systems from Ericsson.

Update Information:

Security fix for CVE-2016-10253 ---- * Ver. 19.3

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical software update Fedora security fix heap overflow Erlang

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1433986 - CVE-2016-10253 erlang: Heap-buffer overflow via regular expressions [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1433986 [ 2 ] Bug #1432265 - erlang-19.3 is available https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1432265

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade erlang' 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: erlang
Product: Fedora 26
Version: 19.3
Release: 2.fc26
URL: https://www.erlang.org/
Summary: General-purpose programming language and runtime environment

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical software update Fedora security fix heap overflow Erlang

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