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Fedora 28: FEDORA-2018-976ce10858 Critical Units Data Validation Fix

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Calendar Grey August 16, 2018
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora 28 introduces a vital security patch enhancing the data validation process for the units utility. This update addresses significant vulnerabilities and includes crucial fixes.
- units_cur: validate rate data from server (#1598913)

Summary

Units converts an amount from one unit to another, or tells you what

mathematical operation you need to perform to convert from one unit to

another. The units program can handle multiplicative scale changes as

well as conversions such as Fahrenheit to Celsius.

- units_cur: validate rate data from server (#1598913)

* Wed Aug 8 2018 Kamil Dudka - 2.17-5

- do not update currency.units from network during build

- units_cur: validate rate data from server (#1598913)

* Sat Jul 14 2018 Fedora Release Engineering - 2.17-4

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

* Wed Jul 4 2018 Kamil Dudka - 2.17-3

- use %{__python3} as the python interpreter

* Wed Jun 27 2018 Kamil Dudka - 2.17-2

- drop the dependency on python3-unidecode no longer used by units_cur

* Tue Jun 26 2018 Kamil Dudka - 2.17-1

- new upstream release

* Mon May 28 2018 Kamil Dudka - 2.16-5

- make units_cur work again (#1574835)

[ 1 ] Bug #1598914 - units: various flaws [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1598914

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2018-976ce10858' 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

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https://fedoraproject.org/security/

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Product: Fedora 28
Version: 2.17
Release: 5.fc28
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Summary: A utility for converting amounts from one unit to another

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