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Fedora 42 Update: Important Segfault Problems in transfig and Testing

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The latest Fedora 42 release introduces a transfigure revision that boosts reliability, implementing smoke tests to resolve significant segmentation faults.
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Summary

The transfig utility creates a makefile which translates FIG (created by xfig)

or PIC figures into a specified LaTeX graphics language (for example,

PostScript(TM)). Transfig is used to create TeX documents which are portable

(i.e., they can be printed in a wide variety of environments).

Install transfig if you need a utility for translating FIG or PIC figures into

certain graphics languages.

Update Information:

Add smoke tests

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Change Log

* Mon Jul 14 2025 Marian Koncek - 1:3.2.9a^20250619.ee3f4d8-2 - Add smoke tests * Thu Jun 19 2025 Marian Koncek - 1:3.2.9a^20250619.ee3f4d8-1 - Update to latest upstream snapshot ee3f4d841d1ba7d5b1b57544c5068822ca92b1af

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2373187 - CVE-2025-46399 transfig: Fig2dev Segmentation Fault Vulnerability [fedora-42] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2373187 [ 2 ] Bug #2373193 - CVE-2025-46400 transfig: fig2dev segmentation fault in read_arcobject [fedora-42] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2373193 [ 3 ] Bug #2373196 - CVE-2025-46398 transfig: fig2dev stack-overflow via read_objects [fedora-42] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2373196 [ 4 ] Bug #2373198 - CVE-2025-46397 transfig: fig2dev stack-overflow [fedora-42] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2373198

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2025-ea5c403b3e' 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: transfig
Product: Fedora 42
Version: 3.2.9a^20250619.ee3f4d8
Release: 2.fc42
URL: https://sourceforge.net/projects/mcj/
Summary: Utility for converting FIG files (made by xfig) to other formats

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