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Fedora 34: FEDORA-2021-5e10ad8c19 Critical Buffer Overflow Issue

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Calendar Grey May 4, 2021
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Important patch for Fedora 34 fixes vulnerability in libmicrohttpd due to buffer overflow. Update now for improved protection.
Update to 0.9.73-1

Summary

GNU libmicrohttpd is a small C library that is supposed to make it

easy to run an HTTP server as part of another application.

Key features that distinguish libmicrohttpd from other projects are:

* C library: fast and small

* API is simple, expressive and fully reentrant

* Implementation is http 1.1 compliant

* HTTP server can listen on multiple ports

* Support for IPv6

* Support for incremental processing of POST data

* Creates binary of only 25k (for now)

* Three different threading models

Update to 0.9.73-1

* Mon Apr 26 2021 Martin Gansser - 1:0.9.73-1

- Update to 1:0.9.73

[ 1 ] Bug #1939128 - CVE-2021-3466 libmicrohttpd: Buffer overflow issue in URL parser in the post_process_urlencoded function [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1939128

[ 2 ] Bug #1953315 - libmicrohttpd-0.9.73 is available

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1953315

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2021-5e10ad8c19' 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: 0.9.73
Release: 1.fc34
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Summary: Lightweight library for embedding a webserver in applications

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