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Fedora 27: FEDORA-2018-b7a613ea5d Critical: gsoap DIME Issue

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Essential gsoap update for Fedora 27 tackling DIME protocol handling problems and risk of freezing.
This patch addresses a critical issue with the DIME protocol receiver that may cause the receiver to become unresponsive when a malformed DIME protocol message is received

Summary

The gSOAP Web services development toolkit offers an XML to C/C++

language binding to ease the development of SOAP/XML Web services in C

and C/C++.

This patch addresses a critical issue with the DIME protocol receiver that may

cause the receiver to become unresponsive when a malformed DIME protocol message

is received. -- https://www.genivia.com/advisory.html

* Wed Apr 18 2018 Mattias Ellert - 2.8.49-4

- Fix issue with DIME protocol receiver and malformed DIME headers

[ 1 ] Bug #1568930 - gsoap: Infinite loop on malformed DIME protocol messages [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1568930

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2018-b7a613ea5d' 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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Product: Fedora 27
Version: 2.8.49
Release: 4.fc27
Summary: Generator Tools for Coding SOAP/XML Web Services in C and C++

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