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Fedora 28 Advisory: FEDORA-2019-6a756fe3a5 Critical: libX11 DoS

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Calendar Grey April 29, 2019
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Essential security patch for libX11 in Fedora 28 targeting system stability issues and off-by-one vulnerabilities, complete with detailed installation steps.
libX11 1.6.7

Summary

Core X11 protocol client library.

libX11 1.6.7

* Tue Oct 9 2018 Adam Jackson - 1.6.7-1

- libX11 1.6.7

* Tue Aug 21 2018 Adam Jackson - 1.6.6-1

- libX11 1.6.6

* Fri Jul 13 2018 Fedora Release Engineering - 1.6.5-9

- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_29_Mass_Rebuild

* Fri Jun 29 2018 Adam Jackson - 1.6.5-8

- Use ldconfig scriptlet macros

[ 1 ] Bug #1623239 - CVE-2018-14598 libX11: Crash on invalid reply in XListExtensions in ListExt.c [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1623239

[ 2 ] Bug #1623251 - CVE-2018-14599 libX11: off-by-one error in XListExtensions in ListExt.c [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1623251

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2019-6a756fe3a5' 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: 1.6.7
Release: 1.fc28
Summary: Core X11 protocol client library

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