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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2016-a7f9e86df7
2016-10-09 18:48:59.139507
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Name : mingw-c-ares
Product : Fedora 24
Version : 1.12.0
Release : 1.fc24
URL :
http://c-ares.haxx.se/
Summary : Library that performs asynchronous DNS operations
Description :
c-ares is a C library that performs DNS requests and name resolves
asynchronously. c-ares is a fork of the library named 'ares', written
by Greg Hudson at MIT.
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Update Information:
Security fix for CVE-2016-5180
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #1380463 - CVE-2016-5180 c-ares: Single byte out of buffer write
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1380463
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use
su -c 'yum update mingw-c-ares' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
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