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Fedora 29: FEDORA-2018-3a25355ab6 Critical: Coreutils Buffer Overflow

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Calendar Grey October 30, 2018
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Important notification regarding Fedora 29 coreutils to address buffer overflow vulnerability in vasnprintf. Utilize DNF for installation to ensure security improvement.
- fix heap-based buffer overflow in vasnprintf() (CVE-2018-17942)

Summary

These are the GNU core utilities. This package is the combination of

the old GNU fileutils, sh-utils, and textutils packages.

- fix heap-based buffer overflow in vasnprintf() (CVE-2018-17942)

* Thu Oct 11 2018 Kamil Dudka - 8.30-5

- fix heap-based buffer overflow in vasnprintf() (CVE-2018-17942)

[ 1 ] Bug #1635899 - CVE-2018-17942 coreutils: gnulib: heap-based buffer overflow in convert_to_decimal function in vasnprintf.c [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1635899

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2018-3a25355ab6' 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 29
Version: 8.30
Release: 5.fc29
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Summary: A set of basic GNU tools commonly used in shell scripts

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