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Fedora 27 libidn Security Update: Integer Overflow Fix for CVE-2017-14062

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Calendar Grey April 6, 2018
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The recent Fedora upgrade for libidn has resolved an integer overflow vulnerability identified as CVE-2017-14062.
Update to the latest upstream release, which fixes CVE-2017-14062.

Summary

GNU Libidn is an implementation of the Stringprep, Punycode and

IDNA specifications defined by the IETF Internationalized Domain

Names (IDN) working group, used for internationalized domain

names.

Update to the latest upstream release, which fixes CVE-2017-14062.

[ 1 ] Bug #1486882 - CVE-2017-14062 libidn2: Integer overflow in puny_decode.c/decode_digit

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1486882

su -c 'dnf upgrade libidn' 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: 1.34
Release: 1.fc27
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Summary: Internationalized Domain Name support library

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