[SECURITY] Fedora 17 Update: pigz-2.2.5-1.fc17

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2013-2589
2013-02-17 02:43:42
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Name        : pigz
Product     : Fedora 17
Version     : 2.2.5
Release     : 1.fc17
URL         : http://www.zlib.net/pigz/
Summary     : Parallel implementation of gzip
Description :
pigz, which stands for parallel implementation of gzip,
is a fully functional replacement for gzip that exploits
multiple processors and multiple cores to the hilt when compressing data.

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Update Information:

Update to 2.2.5

Fixes a low impact security issue (CVE-2013-0296)
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ChangeLog:

* Tue Jul 31 2012 Adel Gadllah <adel.gadllah at gmail.com> - 2.2.5-1
- Update to 2.2.5.
- Backport fixes from F18
- Fixes security issue RH #911556
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #911556 - CVE-2013-0296 pigz: Temporary archive representation created with insecure permissions
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=911556
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update pigz' 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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