[SECURITY] Fedora 17 Update: rpmdevtools-8.3-1.fc17
updates at fedoraproject.org
updates at fedoraproject.org
Wed Sep 12 00:24:49 UTC 2012
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-13234
2012-09-03 22:24:57
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Name : rpmdevtools
Product : Fedora 17
Version : 8.3
Release : 1.fc17
URL : https://fedorahosted.org/rpmdevtools/
Summary : RPM Development Tools
Description :
This package contains scripts and (X)Emacs support files to aid in
development of RPM packages.
rpmdev-setuptree Create RPM build tree within user's home directory
rpmdev-diff Diff contents of two archives
rpmdev-newspec Creates new .spec from template
rpmdev-rmdevelrpms Find (and optionally remove) "development" RPMs
rpmdev-checksig Check package signatures using alternate RPM keyring
rpminfo Print information about executables and libraries
rpmdev-md5/sha* Display checksums of all files in an archive file
rpmdev-vercmp RPM version comparison checker
spectool Expand and download sources and patches in specfiles
rpmdev-wipetree Erase all files within dirs created by rpmdev-setuptree
rpmdev-extract Extract various archives, "tar xvf" style
rpmdev-bumpspec Bump revision in specfile
...and many more.
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Update Information:
Update to upstream version 8.3, fixing among other issues a symlink attack possibility in annotate-output (CVE-2012-3500).
http://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/rpmdevtools.git/tree/NEWS?id=HEAD
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ChangeLog:
* Sun Sep 2 2012 Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta at iki.fi> - 8.3-1
- Update to 8.3.
- Drop specfile constructs no longer needed with Fedora's rpm.
* Sat Jul 21 2012 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng at lists.fedoraproject.org> - 8.2-3
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_18_Mass_Rebuild
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #841043 - [PATCH] licensecheck "Public domain" output causes truncation
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=841043
[ 2 ] Bug #789330 - rpmdev-bumpspec is confused on mysql-workbench spec file
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=789330
[ 3 ] Bug #828455 - rpmdev-newspec should use %make_install
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=828455
[ 4 ] Bug #853452 - CVE-2012-3500 rpmdevtools: TOCTOU race condition in annotate-output [fedora-all]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=853452
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use
su -c 'yum update rpmdevtools' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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