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Fedora 29: FEDORA-2019-4d83e78ad8 Critical: U2F Host C Library Security Fix

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Calendar Grey May 19, 2019
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora 30 patches addressed vulnerabilities in libu2f-host, eliminating potential stack leaks and strengthening U2F authentication protocols.
Security fix for CVE-2019-9578

Summary

libu2f-host provides a C library that implements the host-side of the

U2F protocol. There are APIs to talk to a U2F device and perform the U2F

Register and U2F Authenticate operations.

Security fix for CVE-2019-9578

* Wed Mar 6 2019 Seth Jennings - 1.1.8-1

- Upstream release

- Fixes CVE-2019-9578 libu2f-host: leak of uninitialized stack in devs.c - bug #1685955

[ 1 ] Bug #1685954 - CVE-2019-9578 libu2f-host: leak of uninitialized stack in devs.c

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1685954

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2019-4d83e78ad8' 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: 1.1.8
Release: 1.fc29
URL:
Summary: Yubico Universal 2nd Factor (U2F) Host C Library

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