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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2017-b17d54561b
2017-05-01 18:14:07.337762
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Name : coreutils
Product : Fedora 26
Version : 8.27
Release : 5.fc26
URL :
https://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:
- tail: revert to polling if a followed directory is replaced (#1283760) ----
- date, touch: fix out-of-bounds write via large TZ variable (CVE-2017-7476)
---- - do not obsolete coreutils-single, so it can be installed by DNF2
(#1444802)
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #1283760 - coreutils: tail: inotify support changes behavior of -F with
subdirs
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1283760
[ 2 ] Bug #1444802 - coreutils shouldn't obsolete coreutils-single
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1444802
[ 3 ] Bug #1444774 - heap overflow security issue in date(1) and touch(1)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1444774
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade coreutils' at the command line.
For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at
http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label
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GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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