Fedora 12 Update: gzip-1.3.12-15.fc12

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2010-2786
2010-02-24 04:57:44
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Name        : gzip
Product     : Fedora 12
Version     : 1.3.12
Release     : 15.fc12
URL         : http://www.gzip.org/
Summary     : The GNU data compression program
Description :
The gzip package contains the popular GNU gzip data compression
program. Gzipped files have a .gz extension.

Gzip should be installed on your system, because it is a
very commonly used data compression program.

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Update Information:

Disallow -S '' parameter in gunzip.
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.gzip.bugs/378
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ChangeLog:

* Tue Feb 23 2010 Karel Klic <kklic at redhat.com> - 1.3.12-15
- Added a patch to disallow -S '' parameter in gunzip (noemptysuffix)
* Tue Jan 19 2010 Karel Klic <kklic at redhat.com> - 1.3.12-14
- Fixed CVE-2009-2624 and CVE-2010-0001
  Resolves: rhbz#557471
* Mon Nov 30 2009 Karel Klic <kklic at redhat.com> - 1.3.12-13
- Fixed silent data loss due to unchecked close of stdout (rhbz#514562)
* Fri Oct  9 2009 Ivana Varekova <varekova at redhat.com> - 1.3.12-12
- change the source tag
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update gzip' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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