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A libeconf security update has been released for Fedora 37.



[SECURITY] Fedora 37 Update: libeconf-0.5.2-1.fc37


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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2023-b4b77f950c
2023-09-13 01:34:55.169250
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Name : libeconf
Product : Fedora 37
Version : 0.5.2
Release : 1.fc37
URL : https://github.com/openSUSE/libeconf
Summary : Enhanced config file parser library
Description :
libeconf is a highly flexible and configurable library to parse and manage
key=value configuration files. It reads configuration file snippets from
different directories and builds the final configuration file from it.

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Update Information:

Rebase to 0.5.2 to fix CVE-2023-22652 and CVE-2023-30079
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ChangeLog:

* Mon Aug 28 2023 Iker Pedrosa [ipedrosa@redhat.com] - 0.5.2-1
- Update to 0.5.2 (RH#1980774)
- Fix CVE-2023-22652 (RH#2212464)
- Fix CVE-2023-30079 (RH#2235236)
* Thu Jul 20 2023 Fedora Release Engineering [releng@fedoraproject.org] - 0.4.0-6
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_39_Mass_Rebuild
* Thu Jan 19 2023 Fedora Release Engineering [releng@fedoraproject.org] - 0.4.0-5
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_38_Mass_Rebuild
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References:

[ 1 ] Bug #1980774 - libeconf-0.5.2 is available
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1980774
[ 2 ] Bug #2212464 - CVE-2023-22652 libeconf: stack-based buffer overflow in read_file() in lib/getfilecontents.c [fedora-all]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2212464
[ 3 ] Bug #2235236 - CVE-2023-30079 libeconf: Stack overflow in function read_file at atlibeconf/lib/getfilecontents.c [fedora-all]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2235236
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2023-b4b77f950c' 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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