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Fedora 35 FEDORA-2022-bcc0df5180 Critical: plib Integer Overflow Issue

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Essential security update for plib in Fedora 35 resolving possible unauthorized code execution due to integer overflow vulnerabilities.
Security fix for CVE-2021-38714

Summary

This is a set of OpenSource (LGPL) libraries that will permit programmers

to write games and other realtime interactive applications that are 100%

portable across a wide range of hardware and operating systems. Here is

what you need - it's all free and available with LGPL'ed source code on

the web. All of it works well together.

Security fix for CVE-2021-38714

* Fri May 13 2022 Hans de Goede - 1.8.5-30

- Add 3 patches from Debian

- Fixes CVE-2021-38714 (rhbz#1997815)

* Fri Jan 21 2022 Fedora Release Engineering - 1.8.5-29

- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_36_Mass_Rebuild

[ 1 ] Bug #1997814 - CVE-2021-38714 plib: integer overflow could lead to arbitrary code execution

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1997814

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2022-bcc0df5180' 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 35
Version: 1.8.5
Release: 30.fc35
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Summary: Set of portable libraries especially useful for games

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