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Fedora 29: FEDORA-2018-b38de02132 Critical: SDL2_Image Code Issue

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Calendar Grey November 15, 2018
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Patch applied to mingw-SDL2_image for CVE-2018-3977 on Fedora 29, improving safety and performance in image processing.
Security fix for CVE-2018-3977

Summary

Simple DirectMedia Layer (SDL2) is a cross-platform multimedia library

designed to provide fast access to the graphics frame buffer and audio

device. This package contains a simple library for loading images of

various formats (BMP, PPM, PCX, GIF, JPEG, PNG) as SDL2 surfaces.

Security fix for CVE-2018-3977

* Tue Nov 6 2018 Pete Walter - 2.0.4-1

- Update to 2.0.4

[ 1 ] Bug #1646575 - CVE-2018-3977 SDL2_image: code execution in the XCF image rendering functionality

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1646575

[ 2 ] Bug #1568142 - CVE-2018-3837 SDL2_image: information disclosure in the PCX image rendering functionality

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1568142

[ 3 ] Bug #1500450 - CVE-2017-2887 SDL_image: Incorrect XCF property handling

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1500450

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2018-b38de02132' 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: 2.0.4
Release: 1.fc29
Summary: MinGW Windows port of the Image loading library for SDL2

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