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A libntlm security update has been released for Fedora 33.



SECURITY: Fedora 33 Update: libntlm-1.6-1.fc33


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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2020-8794383d6f
2021-01-21 01:44:43.057144
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Name : libntlm
Product : Fedora 33
Version : 1.6
Release : 1.fc33
URL :   http://nongnu.org/libntlm
Summary : NTLMv1 authentication library
Description :
A library for authenticating with Microsoft NTLMV1 challenge-response,
derived from Samba sources.

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Update Information:

Update to security fix 1.6 version. Fixes CVE-2019-17455
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ChangeLog:

* Sat Oct 31 2020 Kevin Fenzi - 1.6-1
- Update to 1.6. Fixes CVE-2019-17455
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References:

[ 1 ] Bug #1768464 - CVE-2019-17455 libntlm: stack-based buffer overflow in buildSmbNtlmAuthRequest in smbutil.c [fedora-all]
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1768464
[ 2 ] Bug #1825591 - libntlm-1.6 is available
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1825591
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2020-8794383d6f' 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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