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Fedora 30: FEDORA-2019-62b65ed7f6 Critical: Libextractor Buffer Over-Read

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Calendar Grey September 13, 2019
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora 30 introduces an updated libextractor with important security enhancements addressing CVE-2019-15531. Users are encouraged to upgrade to protect their systems
Patch for CVE-2019-15531

Summary

libextractor is a simple library for keyword extraction. libextractor

does not support all formats but supports a simple plugging mechanism

such that you can quickly add extractors for additional formats, even

without recompiling libextractor. libextractor typically ships with a

dozen helper-libraries that can be used to obtain keywords from common

file-types.

libextractor is a part of the GNU project (http://www.gnu.org/).

Patch for CVE-2019-15531

* Thu Sep 5 2019 Gwyn Ciesla - 1.9-5

- Patch for CVE-2019-15531

* Thu Jul 25 2019 Fedora Release Engineering - 1.9-4

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

* Mon Jun 10 2019 Igor Gnatenko - 1.9-3

- Rebuild for RPM 4.15

* Mon Jun 10 2019 Igor Gnatenko - 1.9-2

- Rebuild for RPM 4.15

[ 1 ] Bug #1749219 - CVE-2019-15531 libextractor: heap-based buffer over-read in function EXTRACTOR_dvi_extract_method in plugins/dvi_extractor.c [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1749219

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2019-62b65ed7f6' 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 30
Version: 1.9
Release: 5.fc30
Summary: Simple library for keyword extraction

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