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A gnuchess security update has been released for Fedora 30.



SECURITY: Fedora 30 Update: gnuchess-6.2.6-1.fc30


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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2020-3eaf264c4b
2020-04-27 03:06:12.192800
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Name : gnuchess
Product : Fedora 30
Version : 6.2.6
Release : 1.fc30
URL :   ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/chess/
Summary : The GNU chess program
Description :
The gnuchess package contains the GNU chess program. By default,
GNU chess uses a curses text-based interface. Alternatively, GNU chess
can be used in conjunction with the xboard user interface and the X
Window System for play using a graphical chess board.

Install the gnuchess package if you would like to play chess on your
computer. If you'd like to use a graphical interface with GNU chess,
you'll also need to install the xboard package and the X Window System.

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Update Information:

6.2.6
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ChangeLog:

* Sun Apr 19 2020 Gwyn Ciesla - 6.2.6-1
- 6.2.6
* Tue Jan 28 2020 Fedora Release Engineering - 6.2.5-10
- Rebuilt for   https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_32_Mass_Rebuild
* Thu Jul 25 2019 Fedora Release Engineering - 6.2.5-9
- Rebuilt for   https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_31_Mass_Rebuild
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References:

[ 1 ] Bug #1749177 - CVE-2019-15767 gnuchess: stack-based overflow in cmd_load in frontend/cmd.cc via crafted EPD file [fedora-all]
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1749177
[ 2 ] Bug #1749178 - CVE-2019-15767 gnuchess: stack-based overflow in cmd_load in frontend/cmd.cc via crafted EPD file [epel-7]
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1749178
[ 3 ] Bug #1825541 - gnuchess-6.2.6 is available
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1825541
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2020-3eaf264c4b' 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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