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A mingw-podofo security update has been released for Fedora 31.



SECURITY: Fedora 31 Update: mingw-podofo-0.9.6-15.fc31


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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2020-71e2092ebc
2020-07-11 01:03:04.330769
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Name : mingw-podofo
Product : Fedora 31
Version : 0.9.6
Release : 15.fc31
URL :   http://podofo.sourceforge.net
Summary : MinGW Windows podofo library
Description :
MinGW Windows podofo library.

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Update Information:

This update applies a proposed fix for CVE-2018-12983.
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ChangeLog:

* Thu Jul 2 2020 Sandro Mani - 0.9.6-15
- Backport proposed patch for CVE-2018-12983
* Wed Jan 29 2020 Fedora Release Engineering - 0.9.6-14
- Rebuilt for   https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_32_Mass_Rebuild
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References:

[ 1 ] Bug #1597429 - CVE-2018-12983 podofo: stack-based buffer over-read in the PdfEncryptMD5Base::ComputeEncryptionKey function [fedora-all]
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1597429
[ 2 ] Bug #1597432 - CVE-2018-12983 mingw-podofo: podofo: stack-based buffer over-read in the PdfEncryptMD5Base::ComputeEncryptionKey function [fedora-all]
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1597432
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2020-71e2092ebc' at the command
line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at
  http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label

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