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Fedora 30: FEDORA-2019-ac2a21ff07 medium: geocode-glib SELinux Threat

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Calendar Grey April 17, 2019
Dist Fedora Esm H88
This patch addresses an issue in the Meson build environment that impacts the security of geocode-glib. Essential corrections are made for SELinux vulnerabilities.
This update fixes a [bug](https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/issues/5268) in the Meson build system which caused binaries and libraries to incorrectly be marking as requiring an e...

Summary

geocode-glib is a convenience library for the geocoding (finding longitude,

and latitude from an address) and reverse geocoding (finding an address from

coordinates). It uses Nominatim service to achieve that. It also caches

(reverse-)geocoding requests for faster results and to avoid unnecessary server

load.

This update fixes a [bug](https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/issues/5268) in

the Meson build system which caused binaries and libraries to incorrectly be

marking as requiring an executable stack. This makes them more vulnerable to

security issues, and also can result in errors caused by SELinux denials. This

update also provides rebuilds of all the packages that were built with the buggy

Meson, excepting packages for updates were already pending (in those cases,

those updates have been edited instead). This includes gnome-initial-setup,

which was affected by this problem, resulting in a [release-blocking

bug](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1699099) that prevented it

running correctly with SELinux in enforcing mode.

[ 1 ] Bug #1699099 - gnome-initial-setup 3.32.0+ crashes due to SELinux denials (because it has execstack flag set, because meson 0.50.0 sets it when it shouldn't)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1699099

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2019-ac2a21ff07' 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 30
Version: 3.26.1
Release: 2.fc30
Summary: Geocoding helper library

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