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Fedora 27 gcab Update 1 Moderate: Critical Bug Fixes and API Updates

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Calendar Grey January 30, 2018
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Latest gcab update for Fedora 27 resolves CVE-2018-5345, featuring enhancements to the API along with improvements to prevent memory leaks.
New upstream release * This fixes the security bug known as CVE-2018-5345 * Add new API for fwupd * Do not encode timezone in generated files * Fix countless memory leaks when pars...

Summary

gcab is a tool to manipulate Cabinet archive.

New upstream release * This fixes the security bug known as CVE-2018-5345 * Add

new API for fwupd * Do not encode timezone in generated files * Fix countless

memory leaks when parsing corrupt files * Fix the calculation of the checksum on

big endian machines * Switch to the Meson buildsystem

[ 1 ] Bug #1527062

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1527062

su -c 'dnf upgrade gcab' 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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Product: Fedora 27
Version: 1.0
Release: 1.fc27
Summary: Cabinet file library and tool

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