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Fedora 31 Critical Update Released for libX11 on 2020-9a0b272cc1

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Calendar Grey September 10, 2020
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Upgrade libX11 1.6.12 in CentOS 8 to address severe buffer and integer overflow vulnerabilities.
libX11 1.6.12 (CVE-2020-14363, CVE 2020-14344)

Summary

Core X11 protocol client library.

libX11 1.6.12 (CVE-2020-14363, CVE 2020-14344)

* Wed Aug 26 2020 Peter Hutterer 1.6.12-1

- libX11 1.6.12 (CVE-2020-14363, CVE 2020-14344)

* Fri Jul 31 2020 Adam Jackson - 1.6.9-5

- Fix server reply validation issue in XIM (CVE 2020-14344)

* Tue Jul 28 2020 Fedora Release Engineering - 1.6.9-4

- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_33_Mass_Rebuild

* Wed Jan 29 2020 Fedora Release Engineering - 1.6.9-3

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

[ 1 ] Bug #1862255 - CVE-2020-14344 libX11: Heap overflow in the X input method client

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1862255

[ 2 ] Bug #1872473 - CVE-2020-14363 libX11: integer overflow leads to double free in locale handling

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1872473

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2020-9a0b272cc1' 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 31
Version: 1.6.12
Release: 1.fc31
Summary: Core X11 protocol client library

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