[SECURITY] Fedora 18 Update: libxcb-1.9-3.fc18

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2013-9156
2013-05-25 11:21:02
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Name        : libxcb
Product     : Fedora 18
Version     : 1.9
Release     : 3.fc18
URL         : http://xcb.freedesktop.org/
Summary     : A C binding to the X11 protocol
Description :
The X protocol C-language Binding (XCB) is a replacement for Xlib featuring a
small footprint, latency hiding, direct access to the protocol, improved
threading support, and extensibility.

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Update Information:

Fix integer overflow (CVE-2013-2064)
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ChangeLog:

* Fri May 24 2013 Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer at redhat.com> 1.9-3
- Fix integer overflow in read_packet (CVE-2013-2064)
* Thu Feb 14 2013 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng at lists.fedoraproject.org> - 1.9-2
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_19_Mass_Rebuild
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #960367 - CVE-2013-2064 libxcb: Integer overflow leading to heap-based buffer overlow
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=960367
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update libxcb' at the command line.
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