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Fedora 30: FEDORA-2019-97dcb2762a Moderate: Fix Heap Overflow

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Calendar Grey November 2, 2019
Dist Fedora Esm H88
A remedy has been released addressing the heap overflow vulnerability found in cdf_read_property_info within Fedora's file management tool.
- fix heap-based buffer overflow in cdf_read_property_info() (CVE-2019-18218)

Summary

The file command is used to identify a particular file according to the

type of data contained by the file. File can identify many different

file types, including ELF binaries, system libraries, RPM packages, and

different graphics formats.

- fix heap-based buffer overflow in cdf_read_property_info() (CVE-2019-18218)

* Fri Oct 25 2019 Kamil Dudka - 5.36-5

- fix heap-based buffer overflow in cdf_read_property_info() (CVE-2019-18218)

* Fri Aug 30 2019 Kamil Dudka - 5.36-4

- avoid running librpm's exit handler in a forked process (#1705320)

* Tue Jun 11 2019 Kamil Dudka - 5.36-3

- fix double free on read error (#1685217)

[ 1 ] Bug #1765273 - CVE-2019-18218 file: heap-based buffer overflow in cdf_read_property_info in cdf.c [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1765273

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2019-97dcb2762a' 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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https://fedoraproject.org/security/

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Change Log

References

Update Instructions

Product: Fedora 30
Version: 5.36
Release: 5.fc30
Summary: A utility for determining file types

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