Fedora 26 Coreutils Update: Critical Out-of-Bounds Write Fix

These are the GNU core utilities. This package is the combination of

the old GNU fileutils, sh-utils, and textutils packages.

- tail: revert to polling if a followed directory is replaced (#1283760) ----- date, touch: fix out-of-bounds write via large TZ variable (CVE-2017-7476)

---- - do not obsolete coreutils-single, so it can be installed by DNF2

(#1444802)

[ 1 ] Bug #1283760 - coreutils: tail: inotify support changes behavior of -F with subdirs

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1283760

[ 2 ] Bug #1444802 - coreutils shouldn't obsolete coreutils-single

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1444802

[ 3 ] Bug #1444774 - heap overflow security issue in date(1) and touch(1)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1444774

su -c 'dnf upgrade coreutils' at the command line.

For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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