Fedora 26: libextractor Critical Patch for CVE-2017-17440

libextractor is a simple library for keyword extraction. libextractor

does not support all formats but supports a simple plugging mechanism

such that you can quickly add extractors for additional formats, even

without recompiling libextractor. libextractor typically ships with a

dozen helper-libraries that can be used to obtain keywords from common

file-types.

libextractor is a part of the GNU project ().

Patch for CVE-2017-17440

[ 1 ] Bug #1524553 - CVE-2017-17440 libextractor: NULL pointer dereference in the EXTRACTOR_xm_extract_method function [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1524553

su -c 'dnf upgrade libextractor' 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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