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Fedora: 2015-5510 moderate: PostGIS 2.1.6 Security Enhancements

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Calendar Grey April 21, 2015
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The Fedora 22 update for PostGIS 2.1.6 brings critical security patches and improvements to enhance the performance of spatial data management.
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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Topics Covered

security advisory Fedora software patch security fix PostGIS update database enhancement spatial database

Change Log

References

Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2015-5510 2015-04-04 15:17:48
Name : postgis Product : Fedora 22 Version : 2.1.7 Release : 1.fc22 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 .

Name: postgis
Product: Fedora 22
Version: 2.1.7
Release: 1.fc22
URL: http://www.refractions.net/products/postgis/
Summary: Geographic Information Systems Extensions to PostgreSQL

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Topics Covered

security advisory Fedora software patch security fix PostGIS update database enhancement spatial database

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