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Fedora 29: FEDORA-2019-3389cb9047 Major: Libxml2 Buffer Overflow

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Calendar Grey September 27, 2018
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Resolves a significant stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability in libbson for Fedora 28. Essential update information has been provided.
This release fixes a heap-based buffer over-read when parsing a mallformed BSON document (CVE-2018-16790).

Summary

This is a library providing useful routines related to building, parsing,

and iterating BSON documents .

This release fixes a heap-based buffer over-read when parsing a mallformed BSON

document (CVE-2018-16790).

* Tue Sep 18 2018 Petr Pisar - 1.9.5-3

- Fix CVE-2018-16790 (heap-based buffer over-read in

_bson_iter_next_internal()) (bug #1627924)

* Tue May 29 2018 Petr Pisar - 1.9.5-2

- Fix memory leaks in JSON parser (CDRIVER-2524)

- Fix a buffer underflow in bson_strncpy() (CDRIVER-2596)

- Fix a buffer underflow in bson_snprintf() (CDRIVER-2595)

- Print an error when a memory allocation fails (CDRIVER-2608)

- Fix memory leaks in tests

- Fix obtaining time on 32-bit platforms (CDRIVER-2567)

- Fix a race in OID tests

* Thu May 3 2018 Petr Pisar - 1.9.5-1

- 1.9.5 bump

[ 1 ] Bug #1627923 - CVE-2018-16790 libbson: Heap-based buffer over-read in _bson_iter_next_internal in bson-iter.c

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1627923

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https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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Product: Fedora 28
Version: 1.9.5
Release: 3.fc28
Summary: Building, parsing, and iterating BSON documents

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