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Fedora 34: FEDORA-2021-abc1234567 Critical Libxml2 Code Execution Flaw

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Calendar Grey April 24, 2021
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora has issued a security notice FEDORA-2021-ff3297913b regarding a buffer overflow vulnerability within the gnuchess application.
Patch for CVE-2021-30184.

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.

Patch for CVE-2021-30184.

* Thu Apr 8 2021 Gwyn Ciesla - 6.2.7-5

- Patch for CVE-2021-30184

[ 1 ] Bug #1947594 - CVE-2021-30184 gnuchess: buffer overflows in the cmd_pgnload() and cmd_pgnreplay() functions in frontend/cmd.cc [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1947594

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2021-ff3297913b' 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 34
Version: 6.2.7
Release: 5.fc34
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Summary: The GNU chess program

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