[SECURITY] Fedora 18 Update: rpmdevtools-8.3-1.fc18

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-13208
2012-09-03 17:17:53
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Name        : rpmdevtools
Product     : Fedora 18
Version     : 8.3
Release     : 1.fc18
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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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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