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Fedora 26 pkgconf Security Advisory: Crash Fix and Logic Updates

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Calendar Grey September 25, 2017
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Fedora 27 package updates resolve security vulnerabilities and enhance stability to boost performance and user experience.
# Security fixes - fix crash in edge case where a .pc file has misquoting in a fragment list

Summary

pkgconf is a program which helps to configure compiler and linker flags

for development frameworks. It is similar to pkg-config from freedesktop.org

and handles .pc files in a similar manner as pkg-config.

# Security fixes - fix crash in edge case where a .pc file has misquoting in a

fragment list. # Other bug fixes: - fix logic edge case when comparing

relocated paths

su -c 'dnf upgrade pkgconf' 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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Product: Fedora 26
Version: 1.3.9
Release: 1.fc26
Summary: Package compiler and linker metadata toolkit

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