Fedora 26: coreutils Security Update
Summary
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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FEDORA-2017-b17d54561b 2017-05-01 18:14:07.337762 Product : Fedora 26 Version : 8.27 Release : 5.fc26 URL : https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/ Summary : A set of basic GNU tools commonly used in shell scripts Description : 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 All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at https://fedoraproject.org/security/ package-announce mailing list -- package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to package-announce-leave@lists.fedoraproject.org
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