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Fedora 30: FEDORA-2020-3eaf264c4b Critical Update for gnuchess Software

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Calendar Grey April 26, 2020
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora 30 has released an update for gnuchess version 6.2.6, which resolves significant issues and provides information related to security advisories.
6.2.6

Summary

The gnuchess package contains the GNU chess program. By default,

GNU chess uses a curses text-based interface. Alternatively, GNU chess

can be used in conjunction with the xboard user interface and the X

Window System for play using a graphical chess board.

Install the gnuchess package if you would like to play chess on your

computer. If you'd like to use a graphical interface with GNU chess,

you'll also need to install the xboard package and the X Window System.

6.2.6

* Sun Apr 19 2020 Gwyn Ciesla - 6.2.6-1

- 6.2.6

* Tue Jan 28 2020 Fedora Release Engineering - 6.2.5-10

- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_32_Mass_Rebuild

* Thu Jul 25 2019 Fedora Release Engineering - 6.2.5-9

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

[ 1 ] Bug #1749177 - CVE-2019-15767 gnuchess: stack-based overflow in cmd_load in frontend/cmd.cc via crafted EPD file [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1749177

[ 2 ] Bug #1749178 - CVE-2019-15767 gnuchess: stack-based overflow in cmd_load in frontend/cmd.cc via crafted EPD file [epel-7]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1749178

[ 3 ] Bug #1825541 - gnuchess-6.2.6 is available

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1825541

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2020-3eaf264c4b' at the command

line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

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

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the

GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at

https://fedoraproject.org/security/

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Product: Fedora 30
Version: 6.2.6
Release: 1.fc30
Summary: The GNU chess program

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