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Fedora 28 Advisory: Timidity++ Security Patch for MIDI Handling Issues

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Calendar Grey June 20, 2018
Dist Fedora Esm H88
A new security patch for Timidity++ in Fedora 28 addresses urgent vulnerabilities related to MIDI file processing and desktop file implementation.
- Security fix for [CVE-2017-11546, CVE-2017-11547] - Fix the .desktop files so that opening a .mid file from a GUI filemanager works

Summary

TiMidity++ is a MIDI format to wave table format converter and

player. Install timidity++ if you'd like to play MIDI files and your

sound card does not natively support wave table format.

- Security fix for [CVE-2017-11546, CVE-2017-11547] - Fix the .desktop files so

that opening a .mid file from a GUI filemanager works

* Mon Jun 11 2018 Hans de Goede - 2.14.0-16

- Fix CVE-2017-11546 CVE-2017-11547 (rhbz#1480639)

- Fix the .desktop files so that opening a .mid file from a GUI filemanager

works (rhbz#1541182)

[ 1 ] Bug #1541182 - timidity++-GTK-interface has bad timidity.desktop file

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1541182

[ 2 ] Bug #1480639 - CVE-2017-11546 CVE-2017-11547 CVE-2017-11549 timidity++: ,CVE-2017-11546,CVE-2017-11549 TiMidity++: Multiple vulnerabilities [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1480639

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2018-7c2e288c5f' 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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Update Instructions

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Product: Fedora 28
Version: 2.14.0
Release: 16.fc28
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Summary: A software wavetable MIDI synthesizer

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