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Fedora 29: FEDORA-2019-3ab12e93a4 High: sockets Denial of Service

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Calendar Grey November 30, 2018
Dist Fedora Esm H88
A recent update for the Fedora 28 web browser Links has been released to tackle a serious buffer overflow vulnerability, significantly improving system security.
Update to 2.17.

Summary

Links is a web browser capable of running in either graphics or text mode.

It provides a pull-down menu system, renders complex pages, has partial HTML

4.0 support (including tables, frames and support for multiple character sets

and UTF-8), supports color and monochrome terminals and allows horizontal

scrolling.

Update to 2.17.

* Wed Oct 31 2018 Lubomir Rintel - 1:2.17-1

- New release

* Fri Jul 13 2018 Fedora Release Engineering - 1:2.14-5

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

[ 1 ] Bug #1480632 - CVE-2017-11114 links: Global-based 1 byte buffer over-read in put_chars function in html_r.c [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1480632

[ 2 ] Bug #1560176 - links-2.16 is available

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1560176

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2018-2ee55d77c9' 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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Change Log

References

Update Instructions

Product: Fedora 28
Version: 2.17
Release: 1.fc28
Summary: Web browser running in both graphics and text mode

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