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Fedora 43: GeographicLib Important Patch for Buffer Overflow CVE-2025-60751

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Calendar Grey November 7, 2025
Dist Fedora Esm H88
GeographicLib updated in Fedora 43 to fix a critical buffer overflow issue. Upgrade to enhance system security.
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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Change Log

* Wed Oct 29 2025 Sandro Mani - 2.5.2-1 - Update to 2.5.2

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-e5eb1e35e2' 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 43
Version: 2.5.2
Release: 1.fc43
URL: https://github.com/geographiclib/geographiclib
Summary: Library for geographic coordinate transformations

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