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Fedora 21: Security Advisory for PostGIS 2.1.7 Critical Update

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Calendar Grey April 18, 2015
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Delve into the Fedora 21 release of PostGIS, highlighting essential security improvements and application upgrades found in version 2.1.7.
Update to latest release, which includes security fixes

Summary

PostGIS adds support for geographic objects to the PostgreSQL object-relational

database. In effect, PostGIS "spatially enables" the PostgreSQL server,

allowing it to be used as a backend spatial database for geographic information

systems (GIS), much like ESRI's SDE or Oracle's Spatial extension. PostGIS

follows the OpenGIS "Simple Features Specification for SQL" and has been

certified as compliant with the "Types and Functions" profile.

Update Information:

Update to latest release, which includes security fixes. Update to 2.1.6, per changes described at:

enable json-c for postigs, but disable it for upgrade part Rebuild for Proj 4.9.1

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Change Log

* Wed Apr 1 2015 Devrim Gündüz - 2.1.7-1 - Update to 2.1.7, per changes described at:
* Fri Mar 27 2015 Devrim Gündüz - 2.1.6-1 - Update to 2.1.6, per changes described at: * Thu Jan 8 2015 Jozef Mlich - 2.1.5-2 - disable json-c/geojson just for upgrade part of postgis * Mon Dec 22 2014 Devrim Gündüz - 2.1.5-1 - Update to 2.1.5, per changes described at: and

References

Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2015-5575 2015-04-05 11:03:00
Name : postgis Product : Fedora 21 Version : 2.1.7 Release : 1.fc21 URL : http://www.refractions.net/products/postgis/ Summary : Geographic Information Systems Extensions to PostgreSQL Description : PostGIS adds support for geographic objects to the PostgreSQL object-relational database. In effect, PostGIS "spatially enables" the PostgreSQL server, allowing it to be used as a backend spatial database for geographic information systems (GIS), much like ESRI's SDE or Oracle's Spatial extension. PostGIS follows the OpenGIS "Simple Features Specification for SQL" and has been certified as compliant with the "Types and Functions" profile.

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update postgis' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .

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Name: postgis
Product: Fedora 21
Version: 2.1.7
Release: 1.fc21
URL: http://www.refractions.net/products/postgis/
Summary: Geographic Information Systems Extensions to PostgreSQL

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