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Fedora 27: FEDORA-2018-e1adecd46c Critical: Libmspack Off-By-One

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Calendar Grey August 11, 2018
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora 27 has released an update for libmspack that fixes an off-by-one error related to CHM chunk validation. This important security fix is now accessible.
New upstream version 0.7alpha

Summary

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

some loosely related file formats used by Microsoft.

New upstream version 0.7alpha. Fixes CVE-2018-14679 libmspack: off-by-one error

in the CHM PMGI/PMGL chunk number validity checks

* Wed Aug 1 2018 Richard W.M. Jones - 0.7-0.1.alpha

- New upstream version 0.7alpha.

- No tarball was uploaded so temporarily use tarball from github.

- Fixes CVE-2018-14679 libmspack: off-by-one error in the CHM PMGI/PMGL

chunk number validity checks

* Fri Jul 13 2018 Fedora Release Engineering - 0.6-0.3.alpha

- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_29_Mass_Rebuild

* Wed Feb 7 2018 Fedora Release Engineering - 0.6-0.2.alpha

- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_28_Mass_Rebuild

[ 1 ] Bug #1610890 - CVE-2018-14679 libmspack: off-by-one error in the CHM PMGI/PMGL chunk number validity checks

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1610890

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2018-e1adecd46c' 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: 0.7
Release: 0.1.alpha.fc27
Summary: Library for CAB and related files compression and decompression

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