Fedora 29: 2019-b629e3b97f critical: BIRD Buffer Overflow Fix

BIRD is a dynamic IP routing daemon supporting both, IPv4 and IPv6, Border

Gateway Protocol (BGPv4), Routing Information Protocol (RIPv2, RIPng), Open

Shortest Path First protocol (OSPFv2, OSPFv3), Babel Routing Protocol (Babel),

Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD), IPv6 router advertisements, static

routes, inter-table protocol, command-line interface allowing on-line control

and inspection of the status of the daemon, soft reconfiguration as well as a

powerful language for route filtering.

This package contains IPv4 version.

BIRD 1.6.8 (2019-09-10) ======================= * Several important bugfixes

* Wed Sep 11 2019 Robert Scheck - 1.6.8-1

- Upgrade to 1.6.8 (#1751031, #1751349)

* Mon Aug 5 2019 Robert Scheck - 1.6.7-1

- Upgrade to 1.6.7

* Sat Mar 30 2019 Robert Scheck - 1.6.6-1

- Upgrade to 1.6.6

* Fri Jan 18 2019 Robert Scheck - 1.6.5-1

- Upgrade to 1.6.5

- Modernization and cleanup of spec file

- Ensure /etc/bird.conf can be only read by BIRD user

* Mon Nov 12 2018 Stanislav Kozina - 1.6.4-2

- bird should run under bird user and group rather than root (#1397574)

- bird should run in foreground (#1285672)

* Mon Nov 12 2018 Stanislav Kozina - 1.6.4-1

- Update bird to 1.6.4 (#1642737)

[ 1 ] Bug #1751031 - CVE-2019-16159 bird: incorrect logical expressionwhen checking the validity of an input message leads to stack-based buffer overflow

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1751031

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2019-b629e3b97f' 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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