Fedora EPEL 4 Update: mksh-39c-3.el4

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Fedora EPEL Update Notification
FEDORA-EPEL-2011-0033
2011-01-06 16:34:09
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Name        : mksh
Product     : Fedora EPEL 4
Version     : 39c
Release     : 3.el4
URL         : http://www.mirbsd.de/mksh/
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:

- fix crash when bad substitution is used
- example of bad substitution that could crash old version is:  echo ${x[@]:2} 
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update programs.  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 EPEL 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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