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Fedora 28: FEDORA-2018-d29be920dc Moderate DoS Apache Commons Compress

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Calendar Grey October 19, 2018
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In response to CVE-2018-11771, Fedora 28 releases a security patch for apache-commons-compress, aimed at bolstering safety.
Fix for CVE-2018-11771

Summary

The Apache Commons Compress library defines an API for working with

ar, cpio, Unix dump, tar, zip, gzip, XZ, Pack200 and bzip2 files.

In version 1.14 read-only support for Brotli decompression has been added,

but it has been removed form this package.

Fix for CVE-2018-11771

* Mon Oct 8 2018 Marian Koncek - 1.16.1-2

- Fix denial of service security vulnerability

- Resolves: CVE-2018-11771

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2018-d29be920dc' 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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Update Instructions

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Product: Fedora 28
Version: 1.16.1
Release: 2.fc28
Summary: Java API for working with compressed files and archivers

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