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Fedora 29: 2019-2e495de1527 Major: libgit2 Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

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Calendar Grey July 19, 2018
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Patch released for Fedora 28 to fix input validation and buffer overflow vulnerabilities in libgit2, improving application safety.
Update to 0.26.5 (CVE-2018-10887, CVE-2018-10888)

Summary

libgit2 is a portable, pure C implementation of the Git core methods

provided as a re-entrant linkable library with a solid API, allowing

you to write native speed custom Git applications in any language

with bindings.

Update to 0.26.5 (CVE-2018-10887, CVE-2018-10888)

* Tue Jul 10 2018 Pete Walter - 0.26.5-1

- Update to 0.26.5 (CVE-2018-10887, CVE-2018-10888)

* Mon Jun 25 2018 Pete Walter - 0.26.4-1

- Update to 0.26.4 (CVE-2018-11235)

[ 1 ] Bug #1598024 - CVE-2018-10888 libgit2: an improper input validation leads to an out-of-bound read in git_delta_apply, allowing to read beyond delta limits

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1598024

[ 2 ] Bug #1598021 - CVE-2018-10887 libgit2: integer overflow leads to out-of-bounds read in git_delta_apply, allowing to read before base array

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1598021

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2018-4d253dc945' 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 28
Version: 0.26.5
Release: 1.fc28
Summary: C implementation of the Git core methods as a library with a solid API

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