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Fedora 40: 2025-49e8952aab Modest Patch for stb Exploit Vulnerability

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Calendar Grey January 19, 2025
Dist Fedora Esm H88
To tackle CVE-2021-45340 in Fedora 40, it's vital to apply a security patch focused on the stb libraries to mitigate potential vulnerabilities by malicious actors
Add another patch for the root cause of CVE-2021-45340

Summary

Single-file public domain libraries for C/C++.

Update Information:

Add another patch for the root cause of CVE-2021-45340. We already have a patch for CVE-2021-45340, but adding this new patch may prevent a related, unproven exploit as described in https://github.com/nothings/stb/pull/1454#issuecomment-2581308033.

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Topics Covered

security advisory Fedora patch update exploit prevention C/C++ library

Change Log

* Fri Jan 10 2025 Benjamin A. Beasley - 0^20241002git31707d1-4 - Patch root cause of CVE-2021-45340

References

Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2025-49e8952aab 2025-01-19 01:45:00.581432+00:00 Name : stb Product : Fedora 40 Version : 0^20241002git31707d1 Release : 4.fc40 URL : https://github.com/nothings/stb Summary : Single-file public domain libraries for C/C++ Description : Single-file public domain libraries for C/C++.

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2025-49e8952aab' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label

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Name: stb
Product: Fedora 40
Version: 0^20241002git31707d1
Release: 4.fc40
URL: https://github.com/nothings/stb
Summary: Single-file public domain libraries for C/C++

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Topics Covered

security advisory Fedora patch update exploit prevention C/C++ library

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