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Fedora 29: FEDORA-2018-2c0a92fd3d Low Severity: Links Crash Issue

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Calendar Grey November 10, 2018
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The latest update, version 2.17, resolves a minor crash problem within the links web browser for users operating on Fedora 29.
Update to version 2.17

Summary

Links is a web browser capable of running in either graphics or text mode.

It provides a pull-down menu system, renders complex pages, has partial HTML

4.0 support (including tables, frames and support for multiple character sets

and UTF-8), supports color and monochrome terminals and allows horizontal

scrolling.

Update to version 2.17. Fixes a low-severity (crash) security issue.

* Wed Oct 31 2018 Lubomir Rintel - 1:2.17-1

- New release

* Fri Jul 13 2018 Fedora Release Engineering - 1:2.14-5

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

[ 1 ] Bug #1604707 - links: FTBFS in Fedora rawhide

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1604707

[ 2 ] Bug #1480632 - CVE-2017-11114 links: Global-based 1 byte buffer over-read in put_chars function in html_r.c [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1480632

[ 3 ] Bug #1560176 - links-2.16 is available

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1560176

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2018-2c0a92fd3d' 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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GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at

https://fedoraproject.org/security/

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Change Log

References

Update Instructions

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Product: Fedora 29
Version: 2.17
Release: 1.fc29
Summary: Web browser running in both graphics and text mode

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