Fedora 30 Security Advisory: fribidi Buffer Overflow Risk

A library to handle bidirectional scripts (for example Hebrew, Arabic),

so that the display is done in the proper way; while the text data itself

is always written in logical order.

Security fix for CVE-2019-18397

* Wed Dec 11 2019 Akira TAGOH - 1.0.5-5

- Fix CVE-2019-18397

Resolves: rhbz#1781218

* Thu Jul 25 2019 Fedora Release Engineering - 1.0.5-4

- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_31_Mass_Rebuild

* Tue Jul 23 2019 Akira TAGOH - 1.0.5-3

- Backport upstream patch to remove HAVE_CONFIG_H from public API.

Fixes rhbz#1730516

[ 1 ] Bug #1768750 - CVE-2019-18397 fribidi: buffer overflow in fribidi_get_par_embedding_levels_ex() in lib/fribidi-bidi.c leading to denial of service and possible code execution

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1768750

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https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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