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Fedora 26: FEDORA-2017-4d4914a260 Moderate: Mingw-Libzip Memory Issue

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Version 1.3.0 of mingw-libzip now available, focusing on a security enhancement for addressing vulnerabilities linked to memory allocation issues within zip files.
Update to version 1.3.0, see https://libzip.org/news/ for details

Summary

libzip is a C library for reading, creating, and modifying zip archives. Files

can be added from data buffers, files, or compressed data copied directly from

other zip archives. Changes made without closing the archive can be reverted.

The API is documented by man pages.

Update to version 1.3.0, see https://libzip.org/news/ for details. ----This update backports security fix for CVE-2017-14107.

[ 1 ] Bug #1489000 - CVE-2017-14107 libzip: Memory allocation failure in _zip_cdir_grow function

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1489000

su -c 'dnf upgrade mingw-libzip' 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/

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References

Update Instructions

Product: Fedora 26
Version: 1.3.0
Release: 1.fc26
Summary: C library for reading, creating, and modifying zip archives

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