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Fedora 36 libinput 1.20.1 Critical: Format String Issue Advisory

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Calendar Grey May 7, 2022
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Release notes for libinput 1.20.1 address formatting string vulnerabilities in Fedora 36. Explore the specifics on this vital security announcement.
libinput 1.20.1, fixes a format string vulnerability (CVE-2022-1215)

Summary

libinput is a library that handles input devices for display servers and other

applications that need to directly deal with input devices.

It provides device detection, device handling, input device event processing

and abstraction so minimize the amount of custom input code the user of

libinput need to provide the common set of functionality that users expect.

libinput 1.20.1, fixes a format string vulnerability (CVE-2022-1215)

* Wed Apr 20 2022 Peter Hutterer - 1.20.1-1

- libinput 1.20.1

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2022-998f810306' 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 36
Version: 1.20.1
Release: 1.fc36
Summary: Input device library

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