Fedora 24: guile Security Update
Summary
GUILE (GNU's Ubiquitous Intelligent Language for Extension) is a library
implementation of the Scheme programming language, written in C. GUILE
provides a machine-independent execution platform that can be linked in
as a library during the building of extensible programs.
Install the guile package if you'd like to add extensibility to programs
that you are developing.
Update Information:
Update to the latest stable release, which fixes CVE-2016-8605 and CVE-2016-8606.
Change Log
References
[ 1 ] Bug #1383966 - CVE-2016-8605 guile: Thread-unsafe umask modification
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1383966
[ 2 ] Bug #1383972 - CVE-2016-8606 guile: REPL server vulnerable to HTTP inter-protocol attacks
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1383972
Update Instructions
This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update guile' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .