Fedora 13 Update: coreutils-8.4-9.fc13

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2010-15763
2010-10-05 08:59:49
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Name        : coreutils
Product     : Fedora 13
Version     : 8.4
Release     : 9.fc13
URL         : http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/
Summary     : A set of basic GNU tools commonly used in shell scripts
Description :
These are the GNU core utilities.  This package is the combination of
the old GNU fileutils, sh-utils, and textutils packages.

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Update Information:

- various fixes for case conversion in tr(#611274)
- change assertion failure for invalid multibyte input
  in sort to less confusing error message(#591352)
- add RELRO protection to su as well (#630017)
- compile su with pie again (#630017)
- fix double free abort in tac (#628213)
- Add .ear, .war, .sar , for Java jar-like archives to
  dircolors (#616497)
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ChangeLog:

* Fri Oct  1 2010 Ondrej Vasik <ovasik at redhat.com> - 8.4-9
- various fixes for case conversion in tr(#611274)
- change assertion failure for invalid multibyte input
  in sort to less confusing error message(#591352)
- add RELRO protection to su as well (#630017)
- compile su with pie again (#630017)
- fix double free abort in tac (#628213)
- Add .ear, .war, .sar , for Java jar-like archives to
  dircolors (#616497)
* Tue Jul 20 2010 Ondrej Vasik <ovasik at redhat.com> - 8.4-8
- fix danish translation file encoding(#615945)
* Mon Jun 14 2010 Ondrej Vasik <ovasik at redhat.com> - 8.4-7
- compile coreutils with SELinux support again(#603359)
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #611274 - [abrt] crash in coreutils-8.4-7.fc13: raise: Process /usr/bin/tr was killed by signal 6 (SIGABRT)
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=611274
  [ 2 ] Bug #628213 - tac has a double-free bug (input line longer than 16KiB)
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=628213
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