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openSUSE: 2022:10031-1 Moderate: wdiff Security Update for CVE-2012-3386

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Calendar Grey June 25, 2022
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
A moderate security update for the wdiff package has been released to address vulnerabilities and enhance user protection against potential threats
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available

Description

This update for wdiff fixes the following issues:

This update ships wdiff.

Updated to 1.2.2:

* Updated Vietnamese, Swedish, Estonian, Chinese (traditional),

Brazilian Portuguese and Russian translations.

* Updated gnulib.

* Used more recent autotools: autoconf 2.69 and automake 1.14.1.

updated to 1.2.1:

* Added Esperanto translation.

* Updated Czech, German, Spanish, Finnish, Galician, Italian, Dutch,

Polish, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian and Vietnamese

translations.

* Updated gnulib.

* Recreated build system using recent versions of autotools. This will

avoid security issues in "make distcheck" target. (CVE-2012-3386)

updated to 1.1.2:

* Backport gnulib change to deal with removal of gets function. This is

a build-time-only fix. (Mentioned in Fedora bug #821791)

* Added Serbian translation.

* Updated Danish and Vietnamese translations.

* Work around a bug in the...

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Topics Covered

security advisory security fix openSUSE patch instructions moderate rating wdiff CVE-2012-3386

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods

like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP4:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2022-10031=1

Package List

- openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP4 (aarch64 i586 ppc64le s390x x86_64):

wdiff-1.2.2-bp154.2.1

- openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP4 (noarch):

wdiff-lang-1.2.2-bp154.2.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-3386.html

Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2022:10031-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products: openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP4 .

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Topics Covered

security advisory security fix openSUSE patch instructions moderate rating wdiff CVE-2012-3386

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