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Fedora 28: 2018-f6c972fc06 Critical: libgit2 Security Update

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Calendar Grey November 9, 2018
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Significant libgit2 upgrade for Fedora 28 delivers essential improvements and optimizations, ensuring enhanced security and performance.
Update to 0.26.8

Summary

libgit2 is a portable, pure C implementation of the Git core methods

provided as a re-entrant linkable library with a solid API, allowing

you to write native speed custom Git applications in any language

with bindings.

Update to 0.26.8

* Fri Oct 26 2018 Pete Walter - 0.26.8-1

- Update to 0.26.8

- Update upstream URL

* Mon Oct 8 2018 Pete Walter - 0.26.7-1

- Update to 0.26.7 (CVE-2018-17456)

* Tue Aug 7 2018 Pete Walter - 0.26.6-1

- Update to 0.26.6

* Tue Jul 10 2018 Pete Walter - 0.26.5-1

- Update to 0.26.5 (CVE-2018-10887, CVE-2018-10888)

* Mon Jun 25 2018 Pete Walter - 0.26.4-1

- Update to 0.26.4 (CVE-2018-11235)

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2018-f6c972fc06' 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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https://fedoraproject.org/security/

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Product: Fedora 28
Version: 0.26.8
Release: 1.fc28
Summary: C implementation of the Git core methods as a library with a solid API

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