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Fedora 29: 2018-70c2222171 Critical: SDL2_image Code Execution Fix

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Calendar Grey November 15, 2018
Dist Fedora Esm H88
A security patch for SDL2_image on Fedora 29 resolves a critical code execution vulnerability linked to CVE-2018-3977, ensuring system integrity.
Security fix for CVE-2018-3977

Summary

Simple DirectMedia Layer (SDL) 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 SDL 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

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2018-70c2222171' 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: Image loading library for SDL

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