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Fedora 26: 2017-3229e88ea3 Critical: libmwaw Out-of-Bounds Issue

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The latest Fedora 26 update resolves a critical out-of-bounds write vulnerability present in the libmwaw library, significantly strengthening system security.
Security fix for CVE-2017-9433

Summary

libmwaw is a library for import of old Mac documents. It supports many

kinds of text documents, spreadsheets, databases, vector and bitmap

images. Supported are, for example, documents created by BeagleWorks,

ClarisWorks, MacPaint, MacWrite or Microsoft Word for Mac. A full list

of supported formats is available at

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Security fix for CVE-2017-9433

[ 1 ] Bug #1461762 - CVE-2017-9433 libmwaw: Out-of-bounds write in the MsWrd1Parser::readFootnoteCorrespondence function

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1461762

su -c 'dnf upgrade libmwaw' 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/

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

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Change Log

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Update Instructions

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Product: Fedora 26
Version: 0.3.11
Release: 3.fc26
Summary: A library for import of many old Mac document formats

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