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Fedora 27 libbson Update: 2018-77d864ff39 Moderate Heap Over-Read Fix

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Calendar Grey September 27, 2018
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The Libbson security flaw has been resolved in Fedora 27. This fix tackles the heap over-read issue, providing effective update steps for users.
This release fixes a heap-based buffer over-read when parsing a mallformed BSON document (CVE-2018-16790).

Summary

This is a library providing useful routines related to building, parsing,

and iterating BSON documents .

This release fixes a heap-based buffer over-read when parsing a mallformed BSON

document (CVE-2018-16790).

* Tue Sep 18 2018 Petr Pisar - 1.9.5-3

- Fix CVE-2018-16790 (heap-based buffer over-read in

_bson_iter_next_internal()) (bug #1627924)

* Tue May 29 2018 Petr Pisar - 1.9.5-2

- Fix memory leaks in JSON parser (CDRIVER-2524)

- Fix a buffer underflow in bson_strncpy() (CDRIVER-2596)

- Fix a buffer underflow in bson_snprintf() (CDRIVER-2595)

- Print an error when a memory allocation fails (CDRIVER-2608)

- Fix memory leaks in tests

- Fix obtaining time on 32-bit platforms (CDRIVER-2567)

- Fix a race in OID tests

* Thu May 3 2018 Petr Pisar - 1.9.5-1

- 1.9.5 bump

* Wed Apr 11 2018 Petr Pisar - 1.9.4-1

- 1.9.4 bump

* Thu Mar 22 2018 Petr Pisar - 1.9.3-2

- Adapt to sphinx 1.7.0 (bug #1555204)

- Remove ldconfig postscripts where possible

* Thu Mar 1 2018 Petr Pisar - 1.9.3-1

- 1.9.3 bump

* Fri Jan 12 2018 Petr Pisar - 1.9.2-1

- 1.9.2 bump

* Wed Jan 10 2018 Petr Pisar - 1.9.1-2

- Fix BSON_STATIC_ASSERT() definition

* Wed Jan 10 2018 Petr Pisar - 1.9.1-1

- 1.9.1 bump

* Thu Dec 21 2017 Petr Pisar - 1.8.2-2

- Fix 128-bit float stringification (CDRIVER-2299)

- Fix validating dbpointer when parsing BSON (CDRIVER-2339)

- Fix handling UTF-8 two-byte NUL character (CDRIVER-2401)

* Mon Nov 20 2017 Petr Pisar - 1.8.2-1

- 1.8.2 bump

* Thu Nov 2 2017 Petr Pisar - 1.8.1-1

- 1.8.1 bump

[ 1 ] Bug #1627923 - CVE-2018-16790 libbson: Heap-based buffer over-read in _bson_iter_next_internal in bson-iter.c

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1627923

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2018-77d864ff39' 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: 1.9.5
Release: 3.fc27
Summary: Building, parsing, and iterating BSON documents

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