A fribidi security update has been released for Fedora 30
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2019-533a72fec5
2019-12-20 01:13:42.588460
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Name : fribidi
Product : Fedora 30
Version : 1.0.5
Release : 5.fc30
URL : https://github.com/fribidi/fribidi/
Summary : Library implementing the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm
Description :
A library to handle bidirectional scripts (for example Hebrew, Arabic),
so that the display is done in the proper way; while the text data itself
is always written in logical order.
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Update Information:
Security fix for CVE-2019-18397
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ChangeLog:
* Wed Dec 11 2019 Akira TAGOH - 1.0.5-5
- Fix CVE-2019-18397
Resolves: rhbz#1781218
* Thu Jul 25 2019 Fedora Release Engineering - 1.0.5-4
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_31_Mass_Rebuild
* Tue Jul 23 2019 Akira TAGOH - 1.0.5-3
- Backport upstream patch to remove HAVE_CONFIG_H from public API.
Fixes rhbz#1730516
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #1768750 - CVE-2019-18397 fribidi: buffer overflow in fribidi_get_par_embedding_levels_ex() in lib/fribidi-bidi.c leading to denial of service and possible code execution
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1768750
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
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