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Fedora 28: 2018:ea05fcd378 Critical: vcftools Use After Free Issue

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Calendar Grey December 30, 2018
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Essential security patch for vcftools in Fedora 28 tackles numerous vulnerabilities and improves file management.
- Update to latest upstream release 0.1.16

Summary

A program package designed for working with VCF files, such as those

generated by the 1000 Genomes Project. The aim of VCFtools is to

provide methods for working with VCF files: validating, merging,

comparing and calculate some basic population genetic statistics.

- Update to latest upstream release 0.1.16

* Sun Aug 5 2018 Adam Huffman - 0.1.16-1

- Update to latest upstream release 0.1.16

* Sat Jul 14 2018 Fedora Release Engineering - 0.1.15-7

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

* Mon Apr 9 2018 Filipe Rosset - 0.1.15-6

- added gcc-c++ as BR

[ 1 ] Bug #1580228 - CVE-2018-11130 vcftools: Use after free in headerp.cpp:header::add_FORMAT_descriptor() [epel-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1580228

[ 2 ] Bug #1580225 - CVE-2018-11129 vcftools: Use after free in header.cpp:header::add_INFO_descriptor() [epel-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1580225

[ 3 ] Bug #1580222 - CVE-2018-11099 vcftools: Heap-based buffer over-read in header.cpp:header::add_INFO_descriptor() [epel-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1580222

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2018-ea05fcd378' 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: 0.1.16
Release: 1.fc28
Summary: VCF file manipulation tools

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