Fedora 26 p7zip Security Update: CVE-2017-17969 Critical Heap Overflow

p7zip is a port of 7za.exe for Unix. 7-Zip is a file archiver with a very high

compression ratio. The original version can be found at https://7-zip.org/.

Security fix for CVE-2017-17969 (from Debian)

[ 1 ] Bug #1538457 - CVE-2017-17969 p7zip: heap-based buffer overflow in 7zip/Compress/ShrinkDecoder.cpp can allow an attacker to write arbitrary data and cause a crash

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1538457

su -c 'dnf upgrade p7zip' 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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https://fedoraproject.org/security/

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