Fedora 14 Update: mksh-39c-4.fc14

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2011-0178
2011-01-06 19:07:02
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Name        : mksh
Product     : Fedora 14
Version     : 39c
Release     : 4.fc14
URL         : http://www.mirbsd.de/mksh.htm
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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ChangeLog:

* Wed Jan  5 2011 Michal Hlavinka <mhlavink at redhat.com> 39c-4
- fix crash when bad substitution is used
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