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TITLE:
Fedora update for pyfribidi

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA42868

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RELEASE DATE:
2011-01-11

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DESCRIPTION:
Fedora has issued an update for pyfribidi. This fixes a
vulnerability, which can be exploited by malicious people to
potentially compromise an application using the library.

The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error in the
"log2vis_utf8()" function when converting certain UTF8 Arabic
characters and can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow.

Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code.

SOLUTION:
Apply updated packages via the yum utility ("yum update pyfribidi").

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by Yoann Roman in a fribidi bug report.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
Yoann Roman:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2676136&group_id=158366&atid=807545

FEDORA-2011-0010:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/pyfribidi-0.10.0-1.fc13

FEDORA-2011-0001:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/pyfribidi-0.10.0-1.fc14

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