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Fedora 27: 2017-7bd193c0ed Critical: Libzip Double Free Security Update

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Calendar Grey September 30, 2017
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora 27 has released a libzip security patch that tackles serious vulnerabilities associated with double free errors and EOCD64 parsing issues.
**Version 1.3.0** It contains fixes for two possible security problems

Summary

libzip is a C library for reading, creating, and modifying zip archives. Files

can be added from data buffers, files, or compressed data copied directly from

other zip archives. Changes made without closing the archive can be reverted.

The API is documented by man pages.

**Version 1.3.0** It contains fixes for two possible security problems. The

problems were identified by Brian 'geeknik' Carpenter and Agostino Sarubbo using

AFL. The changes are: * Support bzip2 compressed zip archives * Improve file

progress callback code * Fix zip_fdopen() * CVE-2017-12858: Fix double free(). *

CVE-2017-14107: Improve EOCD64 parsing.

[ 1 ] Bug #1484515 - CVE-2017-12858 libzip: Double free in _zip_dirent_read function in zip_dirent.c [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1484515

su -c 'dnf upgrade libzip' 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: 1.3.0
Release: 1.fc27
Summary: C library for reading, creating, and modifying zip archives

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