[SECURITY] Fedora 27 Update: xdg-utils-1.1.3-1.fc27
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2018-b753813bf0
2018-05-17 13:22:46.744070
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Name : xdg-utils
Product : Fedora 27
Version : 1.1.3
Release : 1.fc27
URL : http://portland.freedesktop.org/
Summary : Basic desktop integration functions
Description :
The xdg-utils package is a set of simple scripts that provide basic
desktop integration functions for any Free Desktop, such as Linux.
They are intended to provide a set of defacto standards.
This means that:
* Third party software developers can rely on these xdg-utils
for all of their simple integration needs.
* Developers of desktop environments can make sure that their
environments are well supported
* Distribution vendors can provide custom versions of these utilities
The following scripts are provided at this time:
* xdg-desktop-icon Install icons to the desktop
* xdg-desktop-menu Install desktop menu items
* xdg-email Send mail using the user's preferred e-mail composer
* xdg-icon-resource Install icon resources
* xdg-mime Query information about file type handling and
install descriptions for new file types
* xdg-open Open a file or URL in the user's preferred application
* xdg-screensaver Control the screensaver
* xdg-settings Get various settings from the desktop environment
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Update Information:
New upstream bugfix release, includes security fix for CVE-2017-18266
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ChangeLog:
* Thu May 10 2018 Rex Dieter <rdieter(a)fedoraproject.org> - 1.1.3-1
- xdg-utils-1.1.3
* Tue Feb 27 2018 Rex Dieter <rdieter(a)fedoraproject.org> - 1.1.2-4
- pull in upstream fixes
* Fri Feb 9 2018 Fedora Release Engineering <releng(a)fedoraproject.org> - 1.1.2-3
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_28_Mass_Rebuild
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #1578767 - CVE-2017-18266 xdg-utils: Argument injection vulnerability in
open_envvar() function
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1578767
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2018-b753813bf0' at the command
line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at
http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label
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