Red Hat alert RHSA-2025:9332-01 (mpfr)

An update for mpfr is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extended
Lifecycle Support.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of
Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which
gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from
the CVE link(s) in the References section.

The MPFR library is a C library for multiple-precision floating-point
computations with "correct rounding". The MPFR is efficient and also has a
well-defined semantics. It copies the good ideas from the ANSI/IEEE-754
standard for double-precision floating-point arithmetic (53-bit mantissa).
MPFR is based on the GMP multiple-precision library.

Security Fix(es):

* mpfr: buffer overflow in mpfr_strtofr (CVE-2014-9474)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS
score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE
page(s) listed in the References section.

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