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Fedora 27: 2017-1af202a86b Moderate: Libmspack Buffer Overflow Issues

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Calendar Grey September 30, 2017
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Critical security patches for libmspack have been released to mitigate buffer overflow vulnerabilities found in Fedora 27. Details regarding the updates have been provided.
Security fix for CVE-2017-6419 and CVE-2017-11423

Summary

The purpose of libmspack is to provide both compression and decompression of

some loosely related file formats used by Microsoft.

Security fix for CVE-2017-6419 and CVE-2017-11423

[ 1 ] Bug #1483909 - CVE-2017-6419 libmspack, clamav: heap-based buffer overflow in mspack/lzxd.c

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1483909

[ 2 ] Bug #1472776 - CVE-2017-11423 libmspack, clamav: Stack-based buffer over-read in cabd_read_string function

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1472776

su -c 'dnf upgrade libmspack' 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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Change Log

References

Update Instructions

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Product: Fedora 27
Version: 0.6
Release: 0.1.alpha.fc27
Summary: Library for CAB and related files compression and decompression

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