[SECURITY] Fedora 21 Update: mksh-50c-1.fc21
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2014-12210
2014-10-05 06:43:00
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Name : mksh
Product : Fedora 21
Version : 50c
Release : 1.fc21
URL : https://www.mirbsd.org/mksh.htm
Summary : MirBSD enhanced version of the Korn Shell
Description :
mksh is the MirBSD enhanced version of the Public Domain Korn shell (pdksh),
a bourne-compatible shell which is largely similar to the original AT&T Korn
shell. It includes bug fixes and feature improvements in order to produce a
modern, robust shell good for interactive and especially script use, being a
bourne shell replacement, pdksh successor and an alternative to the C shell.
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Update Information:
R50c is a security fix release:
* Know more rare signals when generating sys_signame[] replacement
* OpenBSD sync (mostly RCSID only)
* Document HISTSIZE limit; found by luigi_345 on IRC
* Fix link to Debian .mkshrc
* Cease exporting $RANDOM (Debian #760857)
* Fix C99 compatibility
* Work around klibc bug causing a coredump (Debian #763842)
* Use issetugid(2) as additional check if we are FPRIVILEGED
* SECURITY: do not permit += from environment
* Fix more field splitting bugs reported by Stephane Chazelas and mikeserv; document current status wrt. ambiguous ones as testcases too
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #1149626 - mksh: do not permit += from environment
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1149626
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use
su -c 'yum update mksh' 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
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