Fedora 26: wayland Security Update
Summary
Wayland is a protocol for a compositor to talk to its clients as well as a C
library implementation of that protocol. The compositor can be a standalone
display server running on Linux kernel modesetting and evdev input devices,
an X application, or a wayland client itself. The clients can be traditional
applications, X servers (rootless or fullscreen) or other display servers.
Update Information:
This update fixes a possible heap overflow when parsing malicious cursor files. See https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2017-November/035979.html for details.
Change Log
References
[ 1 ] Bug #1522638 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1522638
Update Instructions
This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade wayland' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html