[SECURITY] Fedora 21 Update: fedup-0.9.0-2.fc21

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2014-14347
2014-11-05 19:04:16
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Name        : fedup
Product     : Fedora 21
Version     : 0.9.0
Release     : 2.fc21
URL         : https://github.com/wgwoods/fedup
Summary     : The Fedora Upgrade tool
Description :
fedup is the Fedora Upgrade tool.

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Update Information:

This update works around a serious problem in Fedora 21 Beta which makes systems automatically shut down 15 minutes into the upgrade.

Other improvements:

* Adds `--product=PRODUCT` flag, required for upgrades to F21
* Uses host's config files in `upgrade.img`, which should fix various upgrade problems (e.g. incorrect keyboard layout when unlocking disks due to missing `vconsole.conf`)
* Logging improvements: complete upgrade log should appear in system journal
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #1066679 - CVE-2013-6494 fedup: /var/tmp/fedora-upgrade temporary directory creation vulnerability
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1066679
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use
su -c 'yum update fedup' 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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