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Fedora 26 Taglib Security Update: CVE-2017-12678 Critical Audio Flaw

fedora
Calendar Grey August 24, 2017
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Update addressing CVE-2017-12678 enhances the safety of the audio metadata framework on Fedora 26, shielding it from possible exploits.
Fix for CVE-2017-12678

Summary

TagLib is a library for reading and editing the meta-data of several

popular audio formats. Currently it supports both ID3v1 and ID3v2 for MP3

files, Ogg Vorbis comments and ID3 tags and Vorbis comments in FLAC, MPC,

Speex, WavPack, TrueAudio files, as well as APE Tags.

Fix for CVE-2017-12678

[ 1 ] Bug #1483959 - CVE-2017-12678 taglib: Incorrect cast in rebuildAggregateFrames function

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1483959

su -c 'dnf upgrade taglib' 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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Change Log

References

Update Instructions

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Product: Fedora 26
Version: 1.11.1
Release: 5.fc26
Summary: Audio Meta-Data Library

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