Fedora 29 Security Update: CVE-2018-6952 Memory Crash Issue

The patch program applies diff files to originals. The diff command

is used to compare an original to a changed file. Diff lists the

changes made to the file. A person who has the original file can then

use the patch command with the diff file to add the changes to their

original file (patching the file).

Patch should be installed because it is a common way of upgrading

applications.

security fix for CVE-2018-6952

* Thu Oct 11 2018 Than Ngo - 2.7.6-7

- Fixed #1582675 - Patch can be crashed and coredumped with a trivial wrong command

* Wed Aug 15 2018 Than Ngo - 2.7.6-6

- Fixed #1554752 - Double free of memory, CVE-2018-6952

[ 1 ] Bug #1545054 - CVE-2018-6952 patch: Double free of memory in pch.c:another_hunk() causes a crash [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1545054

[ 2 ] Bug #1582675 - Patch can be crashed and coredumped with a trivial wrong command

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1582675

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2018-90af6f5b8a' 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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