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Fedora 28: FEDORA-2018-b4ef545db5 Moderate: QPDF Stack Exhaustion

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Calendar Grey April 27, 2018
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Essential security patch released for Fedora 28 tackling CVE-2018-9918 in qpdf to mitigate stack overflow risks.
Security fix for CVE-2018-9918

Summary

QPDF is a command-line program that does structural, content-preserving

transformations on PDF files. It could have been called something

like pdf-to-pdf. It includes support for merging and splitting PDFs

and to manipulate the list of pages in a PDF file. It is not a PDF viewer

or a program capable of converting PDF into other formats.

Security fix for CVE-2018-9918

* Mon Apr 16 2018 Zdenek Dohnal - 7.1.1-5

- CVE-2018-9918 qpdf: stack exhaustion in QPDFObjectHandle and QPDF_Dictionary classes in libqpdf.a [fedora-all]

[ 1 ] Bug #1566756 - CVE-2018-9918 qpdf: stack exhaustion in QPDFObjectHandle and QPDF_Dictionary classes in libqpdf.a

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1566756

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2018-b4ef545db5' 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: 7.1.1
Release: 5.fc28
Summary: Command-line tools and library for transforming PDF files

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