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Fedora 34: FEDORA-2021-e283997bb9 Critical: Libebml Heap Overflow Fix

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Calendar Grey March 19, 2021
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Buffer overflow vulnerability patched in libebml for Fedora 34. Urgent security update ready for prompt application.
Fixed several heap overflow bugs in the `ReadData` functions of various data type classes

Summary

Extensible Binary Meta Language access library A library for reading

and writing files with the Extensible Binary Meta Language, a binary

pendant to XML.

Fixed several heap overflow bugs in the `ReadData` functions of various data

type classes. This fixes CVE-2021-3405.

* Wed Feb 24 2021 Dominik Mierzejewski - 1.4.2-1

- update to 1.4.2 (#1930172)

- fixes CVE-2021-3405 (#1926991)

- fix build with GCC-11

[ 1 ] Bug #1926991 - CVE-2021-3405 libebml: Heap overflow in EbmlString::ReadData and EbmlUnicodeString::ReadData [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1926991

[ 2 ] Bug #1930172 - libebml-1.4.2 is available

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1930172

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2021-e283997bb9' 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 34
Version: 1.4.2
Release: 1.fc34
Summary: Extensible Binary Meta Language library

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