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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2017-f942f19ff4
2017-06-11 16:12:29.003581
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Name : picocom
Product : Fedora 24
Version : 2.2
Release : 2.fc24
URL :
https://github.com/npat-efault/picocom
Summary : Minimal serial communications program
Description :
As its name suggests, [picocom] is a minimal dumb-terminal emulation
program. It is, in principle, very much like minicom, only it's "pico"
instead of "mini"! It was designed to serve as a simple, manual, modem
configuration, testing, and debugging tool. It has also served (quite
well) as a low-tech "terminal-window" to allow operator intervention
in PPP connection scripts (something like the ms-windows "open
terminal window before / after dialing" feature). It could also prove
useful in many other similar tasks. It is ideal for embedded systems
since its memory footprint is minimal (less than 20K, when
stripped).
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Update Information:
Upgrade to 2.2, fixing CVE-2015-9059
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #1456399 - CVE-2015-9059 picocom: Command injection in the "send and
receive file" command [fedora-all]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1456399
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade picocom' 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
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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