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Package "libffi"

Name: libffi

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This package is just an umbrella for a group of other packages, it has no description.
Description samples from packages in group:

  • Foreign Function Interface library (development files, 64bit)
  • Foreign Function Interface library runtime (64bit)
  • Foreign Function Interface library (development files)
  • Foreign Function Interface library runtime
Latest version: 3.0.11~rc1-5ubuntu0.1
Release: precise (12.04)
Level: security
Repository: main

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Version: 3.0.11~rc1-5ubuntu0.1 2021-05-03 14:07:21 UTC

  libffi (3.0.11~rc1-5ubuntu0.1) precise-security; urgency=medium

  * SECURITY UPDATE: executable stack
    - debian/patches/CVE-2017-1000376.patch: add missing GNU stack markings
      in src/x86/win32.S.
    - CVE-2017-1000376

 -- <email address hidden> (Leonidas S. Barbosa) Tue, 17 Oct 2017 18:35:38 -0300
CVE-2017-1000376 libffi requests an executable stack allowing attackers to more easily trigger arbitrary code execution by overwriting the stack. Please note that lib


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