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Fedora alert FEDORA-2008-2970 (bzip2)
| From: | updates@fedoraproject.org | |
| To: | fedora-package-announce@redhat.com | |
| Subject: | [SECURITY] Fedora 8 Update: bzip2-1.0.4-13.fc8 | |
| Date: | Wed, 09 Apr 2008 05:19:45 +0000 | |
| Message-ID: | <200804090528.m395SDQh000461@bastion.fedora.phx.redhat.com> |
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2008-2970 2008-04-08 23:44:24 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : bzip2 Product : Fedora 8 Version : 1.0.4 Release : 13.fc8 URL : http://www.bzip.org/ Summary : A file compression utility Description : Bzip2 is a freely available, patent-free, high quality data compressor. Bzip2 compresses files to within 10 to 15 percent of the capabilities of the best techniques available. However, bzip2 has the added benefit of being approximately two times faster at compression and six times faster at decompression than those techniques. Bzip2 is not the fastest compression utility, but it does strike a balance between speed and compression capability. Install bzip2 if you need a compression utility. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: This update fixes bzip2 denial of service (crash) on malformed archives - CVE-2008-1372, #438118. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Tue Apr 1 2008 Ivana Varekova <varekova@redhat.com> 1.0.5-13 - fix cash on malformed archive file - CVE-2008-1372 (#438118) (apply upstream patch) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #438118 - CVE-2008-1372 bzip2: cash on malformed archive file https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=438118 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update bzip2' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/. All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at http://fedoraproject.org/keys -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Fedora-package-announce mailing list Fedora-package-announce@redhat.com http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-ann...
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