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Fedora Core 3 FEDORA-2005-471 Critical: Gzip Issues Addressed

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Calendar Grey June 27, 2005
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora Core 3 patch now addresses minor vulnerabilities in gzip. Ensure your system's safety by applying this update.
In this gzip update there are fixed three small security problems.

Summary

The gzip package contains the popular GNU gzip data compression

program. Gzipped files have a .gz extension.

Gzip should be installed on your Red Hat Linux system, because it is a

very commonly used data compression program.

In this gzip update there are fixed three small security problems.

- fix bug #121514 - CAN-2005-0758 zgrep problem with sed

f6984277ffe974e788fe9af5d08ebc90 SRPMS/gzip-1.3.3-15.fc3.src.rpm

c6ee0023e29c1e7188e01e9079d7699c x86_64/gzip-1.3.3-15.fc3.x86_64.rpm

167379a0e560b57185c31a8161f8834b x86_64/debug/gzip-debuginfo-1.3.3-15.fc3.x86_64.rpm

034dcbfcc54b7b086d385a1e15e3cb5b i386/gzip-1.3.3-15.fc3.i386.rpm

81d0d42d7847dff6bac024ae267adb8b i386/debug/gzip-debuginfo-1.3.3-15.fc3.i386.rpm

This update can also be installed with the Update Agent; you can

launch the Update Agent with the 'up2date' command.

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Name: gzip
Version: 1.3.3
Release: 15.fc3
Summary: The GNU data compression program.

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