Fedora 9 Update: glib2-2.16.6-3.fc9
Summary
GLib is the low-level core library that forms the basis
for projects such as GTK+ and GNOME. It provides data structure
handling for C, portability wrappers, and interfaces for such runtime
functionality as an event loop, threads, dynamic loading, and an
object system.
This package provides version 2 of GLib.
This update fixes possible integer overflows in the base64 handling functions.
This has been reported in CVE-2008-4316.
* Thu Mar 12 2009 Matthias Clasen
- Fix integer overflows in the base64 handling functions. CVE-2008-4316
* Mon Oct 27 2008 Matthias Clasen
- Use asm implementation for atomic ops on x86
* Fri Sep 12 2008 Matthias Clasen
- Update to 2.16.6
* Sat Jul 19 2008 Matthias Clasen
- Update to 2.16.5
* Tue Jul 1 2008 Matthias Clasen
- Update to 2.16.4
* Mon Jun 16 2008 Matthias Clasen
- Fix a directory ownership oversight (#449885)
* Mon Jun 16 2008 Matthias Clasen
- Fix a race in class initialization that causes assertion
failures and crashes
[ 1 ] Bug #474770 - CVE-2008-4316 glib2: integer overflows in the base64 handling functions (oCERT-2008-015)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=474770
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FEDORA-2009-2688 2009-03-13 18:04:34 Product : Fedora 9 Version : 2.16.6 Release : 3.fc9 URL : https://www.gtk.org/ Summary : A library of handy utility functions Description : GLib is the low-level core library that forms the basis for projects such as GTK+ and GNOME. It provides data structure handling for C, portability wrappers, and interfaces for such runtime functionality as an event loop, threads, dynamic loading, and an object system. This package provides version 2 of GLib. This update fixes possible integer overflows in the base64 handling functions. This has been reported in CVE-2008-4316. * Thu Mar 12 2009 Matthias Clasen - 2.16.6-3 - Fix integer overflows in the base64 handling functions. CVE-2008-4316 * Mon Oct 27 2008 Matthias Clasen - 2.16.6-2 - Use asm implementation for atomic ops on x86 * Fri Sep 12 2008 Matthias Clasen - 2.16.6-1 - Update to 2.16.6 * Sat Jul 19 2008 Matthias Clasen - 2.16.5-1 - Update to 2.16.5 * Tue Jul 1 2008 Matthias Clasen - 2.16.4-1 - Update to 2.16.4 * Mon Jun 16 2008 Matthias Clasen - 2.16.3-7 - Fix a directory ownership oversight (#449885) * Mon Jun 16 2008 Matthias Clasen - 2.16.3-6 - Fix a race in class initialization that causes assertion failures and crashes [ 1 ] Bug #474770 - CVE-2008-4316 glib2: integer overflows in the base64 handling functions (oCERT-2008-015) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=474770 su -c 'yum update glib2' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at . All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at https://fedoraproject.org/security/ Fedora-package-announce mailing list Fedora-package-announce@redhat.com http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-announce
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