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Fedora 42: GeographicLib Critical Buffer Overflow CVE-2025-60751

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Calendar Grey November 7, 2025
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Update to GeographicLib 2.5.2 resolves a critical buffer overflow issue identified in CVE-2025-60751 for Fedora 42.
Update to GeographicLib-2.5.2, fixes CVE-2025-60751.

Summary

GeographicLib is a small set of C++ classes for performing conversions

between geographic, UTM, UPS, MGRS, geocentric, and local Cartesian

coordinates, for gravity (e.g., EGM2008), geoid height and geomagnetic

field (e.g., WMM2010) calculations, and for solving geodesic problems.

The emphasis is on returning accurate results with errors close to round-off

(about 5\u201315 nanometers). New accurate algorithms for Geodesics on an

ellipsoid of revolution and Transverse Mercator projection have been

developed for this library. The functionality of the library can be accessed

from user code, from the Utility programs provided, or via the

Implementations in other languages.

Update Information:

Update to GeographicLib-2.5.2, fixes CVE-2025-60751.

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Topics Covered

security advisory fedora buffer overflow critical geographiclib cve-2025-60751

Change Log

* Wed Oct 29 2025 Sandro Mani - 2.5.2-1 - Update to 2.5.2 * Wed Jul 23 2025 Fedora Release Engineering - 2.5-6 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_43_Mass_Rebuild * Sun Jul 20 2025 Sandro Mani - 2.5-5 - Fix bad requires * Sat Jul 19 2025 Python Maint - 2.5-4 - Rebuilt for Python 3.14 * Fri Jul 18 2025 Sandro Mani - 2.5-3 - Drop python subpackages, they now live in python-geographiclib * Mon Jun 2 2025 Python Maint - 2.5-2 - Rebuilt for Python 3.14

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2405440 - CVE-2025-60751 GeographicLib: GeographicLib buffer overflow [fedora-42] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2405440

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2025-65e3f233bf' 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: GeographicLib
Product: Fedora 42
Version: 2.5.2
Release: 1.fc42
URL: https://github.com/geographiclib/geographiclib
Summary: Library for geographic coordinate transformations

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Topics Covered

security advisory fedora buffer overflow critical geographiclib cve-2025-60751

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