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Fedora EPEL Update Notification
FEDORA-EPEL-2014-0565
2014-02-16 10:00:48
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Name : jansson
Product : Fedora EPEL 6
Version : 2.6
Release : 1.el6
URL :
http://www.digip.org/jansson/
Summary : C library for encoding, decoding and manipulating JSON data
Description :
Small library for parsing and writing JSON documents.
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Update Information:
Update to upstream 2.6 version to handle security issue CVE-2013-6401, which can cause a
denial of service attack by using a large amount of CPU cycles
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #1035538 - CVE-2013-6401 jansson: hash table collisions CPU usage DoS
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1035538
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update programs. Use
su -c 'yum update jansson' 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 EPEL GPG key. More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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