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Fedora 28: Fedora-2018-3ac43a1e16 Important: Feh IPC Security Patch

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The latest feh update for Fedora resolves numerous issues and bolsters inter-process communication security, leading to improved performance in image processing tasks.
- update to 2.28 fixes rhbz #1438979 #1444077 and #1602421

Summary

feh is a versatile and fast image viewer using imlib2, the

premier image file handling library. feh has many features,

from simple single file viewing, to multiple file modes using

a slide-show or multiple windows. feh supports the creation of

montages as index prints with many user-configurable options.

- update to 2.28 fixes rhbz #1438979 #1444077 and #1602421

* Sat Oct 27 2018 Filipe Rosset - 2.28-1

- update to 2.28 fixes rhbz #1438979 #1444077 and #1602421

* Fri Jul 13 2018 Fedora Release Engineering - 2.19.3-3

- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_29_Mass_Rebuild

[ 1 ] Bug #1602421 - feh no longer depends on giblib

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1602421

[ 2 ] Bug #1444077 - CVE-2017-7875 feh: Integer overflow in wallpaper.c while receiving an IPC message [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1444077

[ 3 ] Bug #1438979 - feh-2.27.1 is available

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1438979

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2018-3ac43a1e15' 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 28
Version: 2.28
Release: 1.fc28
Summary: Fast command line image viewer using Imlib2

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