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Fedora 27: FEDORA-2018-c73d257297 Moderate: cabextract Security Threat

fedora
Calendar Grey November 17, 2018
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The new stable versions of cabextract and libmspack feature important security patches addressing serious vulnerabilities that have been identified.
Latest stable releases of libmspack and cabextract, includes security fixes for CVE-2018-14680, CVE-2018-14681, CVE-2018-14682, CVE-2018-18584, CVE-2018-18585

Summary

cabextract is a program which can extract files from cabinet (.cab)

archives.

Latest stable releases of libmspack and cabextract, includes security fixes for

CVE-2018-14680, CVE-2018-14681, CVE-2018-14682, CVE-2018-18584, CVE-2018-18585

* Tue Nov 6 2018 Rex Dieter - 1.9-1

- 1.9

* Tue Oct 30 2018 Rex Dieter - 1.8-1

- 1.8

* Wed Jul 25 2018 Rex Dieter - 1.7-1

- 1.7 (#1186186)

* Thu Jul 12 2018 Fedora Release Engineering - 1.5-9

- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_29_Mass_Rebuild

* Wed Feb 7 2018 Fedora Release Engineering - 1.5-8

- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_28_Mass_Rebuild

[ 1 ] Bug #1610941 - CVE-2018-14682 libmspack: off-by-one error in the TOLOWER() macro for CHM decompression

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1610941

[ 2 ] Bug #1610896 - CVE-2018-14681 libmspack: out-of-bounds write in kwajd_read_headers in mspack/kwajd.c

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1610896

[ 3 ] Bug #1610934 - CVE-2018-14680 libmspack: off-by-one error in the CHM chunk number validity checks

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1610934

[ 4 ] Bug #1644215 - CVE-2018-18585 libmspack: chmd_read_headers() fails to reject filenames containing NULL bytes

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1644215

[ 5 ] Bug #1644214 - CVE-2018-18584 libmspack: Out-of-bounds write in mspack/cab.h

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1644214

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2018-c73d257297' 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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Update Instructions

Product: Fedora 27
Version: 1.9
Release: 1.fc27
Summary: Utility for extracting cabinet (.cab) archives

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