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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2017-354b9647ba
2017-12-19 18:22:41.465370
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Name : libextractor
Product : Fedora 27
Version : 1.6
Release : 2.fc27
URL :
http://www.gnu.org/software/libextractor
Summary : Simple library for keyword extraction
Description :
libextractor is a simple library for keyword extraction. libextractor
does not support all formats but supports a simple plugging mechanism
such that you can quickly add extractors for additional formats, even
without recompiling libextractor. libextractor typically ships with a
dozen helper-libraries that can be used to obtain keywords from common
file-types.
libextractor is a part of the GNU project (
http://www.gnu.org/).
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Update Information:
Patch for CVE-2017-17440
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #1524553 - CVE-2017-17440 libextractor: NULL pointer dereference in the
EXTRACTOR_xm_extract_method function [fedora-all]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1524553
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade libextractor' 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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