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An indent security update has been released for Fedora 38.



[SECURITY] Fedora 38 Update: indent-2.2.13-4.fc38


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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2023-b7f5059ee9
2023-09-07 01:27:49.829977
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Name : indent
Product : Fedora 38
Version : 2.2.13
Release : 4.fc38
URL : https://www.gnu.org/software/indent/
Summary : A GNU program for formatting C code
Description :
Indent is a GNU program for beautifying C code, so that it is easier to
read. Indent can also convert from one C writing style to a different
one. Indent understands correct C syntax and tries to handle incorrect
C syntax.

Install the indent package if you are developing applications in C and
you want a program to format your code.

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Update Information:

This release fixes a heap buffer overwrite in search_brace() (CVE-2023-40305)
and a heap overread in lexi().
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ChangeLog:

* Wed Aug 16 2023 Petr Pisar [ppisar@redhat.com] - 2.2.13-4
- Fix a heap overread in search_brace/lexi
- Fix CVE-2023-40305 (a heap buffer overwrite in search_brace) (bug #2231919)
* Mon Apr 17 2023 Petr Pisar [ppisar@redhat.com] - 2.2.13-3
- Correct a license to "GPL-3.0-or-later AND BSD-3-Clause AND BSD-4.3TAHOE AND
Latex2e-translated-notice"
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References:

[ 1 ] Bug #2231854 - CVE-2023-40305 indent: heap-based buffer overflow in search_brace() in indent.c
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2231854
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2023-b7f5059ee9' 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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