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Fedora 29 libgxps Security Update: Fixing Document Rendering Issues

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Calendar Grey January 10, 2019
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Upgrade libgxps to version 0.3.1 for Fedora 29 to rectify buffer overflow vulnerabilities and enhance document rendering capabilities.
libgxps 0.3.1 release

Summary

libgxps is a GObject based library for handling and rendering XPS

documents.

libgxps 0.3.1 release. - Fix font scaling when converting xps to pdf - Handle

errors returned by archive_read_data in GXPSArchive - Ensure

gxps_archive_read_entry() fills the GError in case of failure - Make the pdf

generated by xpstopdf to be 96 dpi - Fix OUTPUT FILE description in man pages

- Clear the GError before trying to load an image again in

gxps_images_get_image() - Fix integer overflow in png decoder

* Sat Jan 5 2019 Kalev Lember - 0.3.1-1

- Update to 0.3.1

- Fix gtk-doc and gir directory ownership

[ 1 ] Bug #1576176 - CVE-2018-10767 libgxps: Stack-based buffer overflow in calling glib in gxps_images_guess_content_type of gcontenttype.c [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1576176

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2019-8e9789a629' 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: 0.3.1
Release: 1.fc29
Summary: GObject based library for handling and rendering XPS documents

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