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Fedora 28: 2019-g3d3a17415 Urgent: libxml2 Memory Leak Detection

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Calendar Grey April 30, 2018
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Upgrade qpdf to version 7.1.1 in Fedora to resolve significant security vulnerabilities, improving PDF processing features.
Rebase to qpdf-7.1.1 because of security fixes for CVE-2018-9918, CVE-2017-11627, CVE-2017-12595.

Summary

QPDF is a command-line program that does structural, content-preserving

transformations on PDF files. It could have been called something

like pdf-to-pdf. It includes support for merging and splitting PDFs

and to manipulate the list of pages in a PDF file. It is not a PDF viewer

or a program capable of converting PDF into other formats.

Rebase to qpdf-7.1.1 because of security fixes for CVE-2018-9918,

CVE-2017-11627, CVE-2017-12595.

* Mon Apr 16 2018 Zdenek Dohnal - 7.1.1-5

- CVE-2018-9918 qpdf: stack exhaustion in QPDFObjectHandle and QPDF_Dictionary classes in libqpdf.a [fedora-all]

* Mon Feb 19 2018 Zdenek Dohnal - 7.1.1-4

- gcc and gcc-c++ are no longer in buildroot by default

* Fri Feb 9 2018 Fedora Release Engineering - 7.1.1-3

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

* Thu Feb 8 2018 Zdenek Dohnal - 7.1.1-2

- remove old stuff

* Mon Feb 5 2018 Zdenek Dohnal - 7.1.1-1

- rebase to 7.1.1

* Tue Sep 19 2017 Zdenek Dohnal - 7.0.0-1

- rebase to 7.0.0

[ 1 ] Bug #1566756 - CVE-2018-9918 qpdf: stack exhaustion in QPDFObjectHandle and QPDF_Dictionary classes in libqpdf.a

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1566756

[ 2 ] Bug #1475517 - CVE-2017-11627 qpdf: Infinite loop in PointerHolder function in PointerHolder.hh

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1475517

[ 3 ] Bug #1485847 - CVE-2017-12595 qpdf: Stack overflow when processing deeply nested arrays and dictionaries

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1485847

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2018-f2e1c09437' 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: 7.1.1
Release: 5.fc27
Summary: Command-line tools and library for transforming PDF files

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