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Fedora: 2020-d53469eceb Critical: Oniguruma Buffer Overflow Fix

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Calendar Grey October 9, 2020
Dist Fedora Esm H88
A recent Fedora update tackles a memory overflow vulnerability in oniguruma, improving both stability and security. Find out more.
Backport fix for CVE-2020-26159

Summary

Oniguruma is a regular expressions library.

The characteristics of this library is that different character encoding

for every regular expression object can be specified.

(supported APIs: GNU regex, POSIX and Oniguruma native)

Backport fix for CVE-2020-26159

* Thu Oct 1 2020 Mamoru TASAKA - 6.9.4-2

- Apply upstream fix for CVE-2020-26159

[ 1 ] Bug #1884112 - CVE-2020-26159 oniguruma: Buffer overflow in concat_opt_exact_str could result in DoS [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1884112

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2020-d53469eceb' 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: 6.9.4
Release: 2.fc31
Summary: Regular expressions library

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