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Fedora 27: libvpx Security Advisory, CVE-2017-13194, Critical DoS Fix

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Calendar Grey January 23, 2018
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Essential libvpx patch addresses DoS vulnerability from CVE-2017-13194 for Fedora 27 users. Implement the update using dnf upgrade today!
fix for CVE-2017-13194

Summary

libvpx provides the VP8/VP9 SDK, which allows you to integrate your applications

with the VP8 and VP9 video codecs, high quality, royalty free, open source codecs

deployed on millions of computers and devices worldwide.

fix for CVE-2017-13194

[ 1 ] Bug #1535183 - CVE-2017-13194 libvpx: denial of service (DoS) in vpx/src/vpx_image.c file

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1535183

su -c 'dnf upgrade libvpx' 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/

package-announce mailing list -- package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org

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Change Log

References

Update Instructions

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Product: Fedora 27
Version: 1.6.1
Release: 5.fc27
Summary: VP8/VP9 Video Codec SDK

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