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Fedora 26: 2017-a19b28f8ce Critical: ICU Heap Overflow Fix

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Vital Fedora 26 patch focusing on memory corruption vulnerabilities, significantly improving overall system security.
Security fix for CVE-2017-7867 CVE-2017-7868

Summary

Tools and utilities for developing with icu.

Security fix for CVE-2017-7867 CVE-2017-7868

[ 1 ] Bug #1444097 - CVE-2017-7867 icu: Heap-buffer overflow in utext_setNativeIndex function

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1444097

[ 2 ] Bug #1444098 - CVE-2017-7868 icu: Heap-buffer overflow in utext_moveIndex32 function

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1444098

su -c 'dnf upgrade icu' 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

package-announce mailing list -- package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org

To unsubscribe send an email to package-announce-leave@lists.fedoraproject.org

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security advisory security issue software update Fedora critical fix heap overflow icu

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Product: Fedora 26
Version: 57.1
Release: 6.fc26
URL: https://icu-project.org/
Summary: International Components for Unicode

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue software update Fedora critical fix heap overflow icu

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