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Fedora 28: FEDORA-2018-9dd3f7c013 Critical: unrtf Buffer Overflow

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Important patch for Fedora 28 tackling unrtf heap-based memory overflow vulnerability, enhancing overall system protection.
Patch for CVE-2016-10091

Summary

UnRTF is a command-line program written in C which converts documents in

Rich Text Format (.rtf) to HTML, LaTeX, troff macros, and RTF itself.

Converting to HTML, it supports a number of features of Rich Text Format:

* Changes in the text's font, size, weight (bold), and slant (italic)

* Underlines and strikethroughs

* Partial support for text shadowing, outlining, embossing, or engraving

* Capitalizations

* Superscripts and subscripts

* Expanded and condensed text

* Changes in the foreground and background colors

* Conversion of special characters to HTML entities

Patch for CVE-2016-10091

* Fri Jun 8 2018 Ken Dreyer - 0.21.9-8

- Switch to %autosetup

- Patch for CVE-2016-10091

[ 1 ] Bug #1409546 - CVE-2016-10091 unrtf: stack-based buffer overflows in cmd_* functions

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1409546

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2018-9dd3f7c013' 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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Product: Fedora 28
Version: 0.21.9
Release: 8.fc28
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Summary: RTF (Rich Text Format) to other formats converter

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