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Fedora 27: libXcursor 1.1.15 Critical Buffer Overflow Advisory

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Calendar Grey March 6, 2018
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Urgent libXcursor 1.1.15 security notice highlights buffer overflow vulnerabilities on Fedora 27. Immediate update advised.
libXcursor 1.1.15

Summary

This is a simple library designed to help locate and load cursors.

Cursors can be loaded from files or memory. A library of common cursors

exists which map to the standard X cursor names.Cursors can exist in

several sizes and the library automatically picks the best size.

libXcursor 1.1.15

[ 1 ] Bug #1518479 - CVE-2017-16612 libXcursor: file.c: heap-based buffer overflow when reading/creating images [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1518479

su -c 'dnf upgrade libXcursor' 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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Product: Fedora 27
Version: 1.1.15
Release: 1.fc27
Summary: Cursor management library

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