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Fedora 27: mimedefang Security Update

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MIMEDefang 2.81 Sys::Syslog has a developer tag added (like 0.33_01 on Debian Stretch). * Make mimedefang and mimedefang-multiplexor write their PID files as root to avoid an unprivileged user tampering with the pidfiles. Thanks to Michael Orlitzky for pointing this issue out.

Fedora 27: libzip Security Update

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**Version 1.3.0** It contains fixes for two possible security problems. The problems were identified by Brian 'geeknik' Carpenter and Agostino Sarubbo using AFL. The changes are: * Support bzip2 compressed zip archives * Improve file progress callback code * Fix zip_fdopen() * CVE-2017-12858: Fix double free(). * CVE-2017-14107: Improve EOCD64 parsing.

Fedora 27: gd Security Update

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**Version 2.2.5** - 2017-08-30 * **Security** - Double-free in gdImagePngPtr(). **CVE-2017-6362** - Buffer over-read into uninitialized memory. **CVE-2017-7890** * **Fixed** - Fix #109: XBM reading fails with printed error - Fix #338: Fatal and normal libjpeg/ibpng errors not distinguishable - Fix #357: 2.2.4: Segfault in test suite - Fix #386:

Fedora 26: git Security Update 2017-9b35152c83

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These releases are about hardening `git shell` that is used on servers against an unsafe user input, which `git cvsserver` copes with poorly. From the release notes: * "git cvsserver" no longer is invoked by "git shell" by default, as it is old and largely unmaintained. * Various Perl scripts did not use safe_pipe_capture() instead of backticks, leaving them susceptible to