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Fedora 27 pkgconf Security Advisory: Fix for Edge Case Crash

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Calendar Grey September 30, 2017
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Patch release for pkgconf to resolve issue leading to system instability stemming from improperly formatted fragment lists in Fedora 27.
# 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 27
Version: 1.3.9
Release: 1.fc27
Summary: Package compiler and linker metadata toolkit

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