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Fedora 26: 2018-78570112db Critical: mingw-leptonica Pathname Bypass

fedora
Calendar Grey March 13, 2018
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora's MinGW Leptonica upgrade addresses various CVEs, bolstering overall security. Use dnf to install and ensure your system is updated now.
This update fixes CVE-2017-18196

Summary

MinGW Windows Leptonica library.

This update fixes CVE-2017-18196. ---- This update backports security fixes

for CVE-2018-3836, CVE-2018-7186 and CVE-2018-7247.

[ 1 ] Bug #1549410 - CVE-2017-18196 leptonica: Mishandled pathnames in /tmp subdirectories can allow users to bypass intended file restrictions

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1549410

su -c 'dnf upgrade mingw-leptonica' 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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Product: Fedora 26
Version: 1.74.4
Release: 4.fc26
Summary: MinGW Windows Leptonica library

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