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Fedora 37: FEDORA-2023-335e8b2908 Critical: libcaca Buffer Overflow

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Calendar Grey October 11, 2023
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Important Security Patch Issued for libcaca on Fedora 37, Active Starting October 11, 2023
Fix CVE-2022-0856 (RHBZ#2081750)

Summary

libcaca is the Colour AsCii Art library. It provides high level functions for

color text drawing, simple primitives for line, polygon and ellipse drawing, as

well as powerful image to text conversion routines.

Update Information:

Fix CVE-2022-0856 (RHBZ#2081750)

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Topics Covered

security advisory fedora buffer overflow critical security fix libcaca

Change Log

* Sun Sep 24 2023 Xavier Bachelot - 0.99-0.69.beta20 - Fix CVE-2022-0856 (RHBZ#2081750) - Add missing Requires: for caca-utils (RHBZ#1701685) * Thu Jul 20 2023 Fedora Release Engineering - 0.99-0.68.beta20 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_39_Mass_Rebuild * Tue Jun 13 2023 Python Maint - 0.99-0.67.beta20 - Rebuilt for Python 3.12 * Tue Jun 13 2023 Leigh Scott - 0.99-0.66.beta20 - Rebuild fo new imlib2 * Fri Jan 20 2023 Peter Fordham - 0.99-0.65.beta20 - Port code to C99. * Thu Jan 19 2023 Fedora Release Engineering - 0.99-0.64.beta20 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_38_Mass_Rebuild * Wed Jan 4 2023 Mamoru TASAKA - 0.99-0.63.beta20 - Rebuild for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Ruby_3.2

References

Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2023-335e8b2908 2023-10-11 01:33:15.490348 Name : libcaca Product : Fedora 37 Version : 0.99 Release : 0.69.beta20.fc37 URL : http://caca.zoy.org/wiki/libcaca Summary : Library for Colour AsCii Art, text mode graphics Description : libcaca is the Colour AsCii Art library. It provides high level functions for color text drawing, simple primitives for line, polygon and ellipse drawing, as well as powerful image to text conversion routines.

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2023-335e8b2908' 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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Name: libcaca
Product: Fedora 37
Version: 0.99
Release: 0.69.beta20.fc37
URL: http://caca.zoy.org/wiki/libcaca
Summary: Library for Colour AsCii Art, text mode graphics

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