-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2011-6750 2011-05-09 03:26:46 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : apr Product : Fedora 15 Version : 1.4.5 Release : 1.fc15 URL : http://apr.apache.org/ Summary : Apache Portable Runtime library Description : The mission of the Apache Portable Runtime (APR) is to provide a free library of C data structures and routines, forming a system portability layer to as many operating systems as possible, including Unices, MS Win32, BeOS and OS/2.
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Various bug fixes since 1.4.2.
Security: CVE-2011-0419 Reimplement apr_fnmatch() from scratch using a non-recursive algorithm; now has improved compliance with the fnmatch() spec.
Note: 1.4.3 was never officially released.
Release -2 should fix top_builddir problem from -1.
Fix CVE-2011-1928 introduced in 1.4.4. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog:
* Fri May 20 2011 Bojan Smojver bojan@rexursive.com - 1.4.5-1 - bump up to 1.4.5 * Tue May 10 2011 Bojan Smojver bojan@rexursive.com - 1.4.4-2 - fix top_builddir in apr_rules.mk * Mon May 9 2011 Bojan Smojver bojan@rexursive.com - 1.4.4-1 - bump up to 1.4.4 - CVE-2011-0419 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References:
[ 1 ] Bug #703390 - CVE-2011-0419 apr: unconstrained recursion in apr_fnmatch https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=703390 [ 2 ] Bug #706203 - CVE-2011-1928 apr: DoS flaw in apr_fnmatch() due to fix for CVE-2011-0419 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=706203 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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