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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2009-13181
2009-12-16 00:18:40
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Name : coreutils
Product : Fedora 12
Version : 7.6
Release : 8.fc12
URL :
http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/
Summary : A set of basic GNU tools commonly used in shell scripts
Description :
These are the GNU core utilities. This package is the combination of
the old GNU fileutils, sh-utils, and textutils packages.
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Update Information:
CVE-2009-4135 : Unsafe temporary directory use in "distcheck" rule
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ChangeLog:
* Fri Dec 11 2009 Ondrej Vasik <ovasik@redhat.com> - 7.6-8
- CVE-2009-4135 : Unsafe temporary directory use in "distcheck" rule
* Mon Nov 23 2009 Ondrej Vasik <ovasik@redhat.com> - 7.6-7
- update /etc/DIR_COLORS* files
- ls -LR exits with status 2, not 0, when it encounters
a cycle(#525402)
- ls: print "?", not "0" as inode of dereferenced dangling
symlink(#525400)
- /bin/{true,false} - do not segfault with abusive
execve() usage (#537684)
- tail -F no longer can fail to track a file after
it's been rotated (#537664)
- du - do not fail on a submount during traversal (#501848)
- call the install-info on .gz info files
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #545439 - CVE-2009-4135 coreutils: Unsafe temporary directory use in "distcheck" rule
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=545439
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