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Fedora alert FEDORA-2013-9156 (libxcb)

From:  updates@fedoraproject.org
To:  package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org
Subject:  [SECURITY] Fedora 18 Update: libxcb-1.9-3.fc18
Date:  Thu, 06 Jun 2013 01:38:16 +0000
Message-ID:  <20130606013814.E2E6921BA7@bastion01.phx2.fedoraproject.org>
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2013-9156 2013-05-25 11:21:02 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : libxcb Product : Fedora 18 Version : 1.9 Release : 3.fc18 URL : http://xcb.freedesktop.org/ Summary : A C binding to the X11 protocol Description : The X protocol C-language Binding (XCB) is a replacement for Xlib featuring a small footprint, latency hiding, direct access to the protocol, improved threading support, and extensibility. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: Fix integer overflow (CVE-2013-2064) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Fri May 24 2013 Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@redhat.com> 1.9-3 - Fix integer overflow in read_packet (CVE-2013-2064) * Thu Feb 14 2013 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 1.9-2 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_19_Mass_Rebuild -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #960367 - CVE-2013-2064 libxcb: Integer overflow leading to heap-based buffer overlow https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=960367 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update libxcb' 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 https://fedoraproject.org/keys -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ package-announce mailing list package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/package-...


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