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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2017-b414bd5b99
2017-12-19 18:22:41.465593
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Name : wayland
Product : Fedora 27
Version : 1.14.0
Release : 2.fc27
URL :
http://wayland.freedesktop.org/
Summary : Wayland Compositor Infrastructure
Description :
Wayland is a protocol for a compositor to talk to its clients as well as a C
library implementation of that protocol. The compositor can be a standalone
display server running on Linux kernel modesetting and evdev input devices,
an X application, or a wayland client itself. The clients can be traditional
applications, X servers (rootless or fullscreen) or other display servers.
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Update Information:
This update fixes a possible heap overflow when parsing malicious cursor files.
See
https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-
devel/2017-November/035979.html for details.
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #1522638
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1522638
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade wayland' 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
All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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