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Fedora 43 libre Important Buffer Overflow Fix 2026-bfba5a213d

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Calendar Grey June 5, 2026
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Update to libre 4.8.1 in Fedora 43 addresses crucial functionality and security aspects for real-time communications.
libre v4.8.1 (2026-05-28) fmt/pl: add pl_strip_html() sys/fs: add getpwuid fallback for fs_gethome tls: remove unused include rsa.h ice: check source address of incoming applicatio...

Summary

Libre is a generic library for real-time communications with async I/O

support. Features are a SIP stack (RFC 3261), SDP, RTP and RTCP, SRTP and

SRTCP (Secure RTP), DNS client, STUN/TURN/ICE stack, BFCP, HTTP stack with

client/server, Websockets, Jitter buffer, async I/O (poll, epoll, select,

kqueue), UDP/TCP/TLS/DTLS transport, JSON parser and Real Time Messaging

Protocol (RTMP).

Update Information:

libre v4.8.1 (2026-05-28) fmt/pl: add pl_strip_html() sys/fs: add getpwuid fallback for fs_gethome tls: remove unused include rsa.h ice: check source address of incoming application packets websock: Fix integer overflow in websock_decode() masked frame check https://github.com/baresip/re/security/advisories/GHSA-hvxv-v2gp-v93h https://github.com/baresip/baresip/issues/3705

Change Log

* Thu May 28 2026 Robert Scheck 4.8.1-1 - Upgrade to 4.8.1 (#2482756)

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2482756 - libre-4.8.1 is available https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2482756

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2026-bfba5a213d' 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: libre
Product: Fedora 43
Version: 4.8.1
Release: 1.fc43
Summary: Generic library for real-time communications

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