Fedora 14 Update: dosfstools-3.0.9-5.fc14

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2011-1421
2011-02-14 19:47:32
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Name        : dosfstools
Product     : Fedora 14
Version     : 3.0.9
Release     : 5.fc14
URL         : http://www.daniel-baumann.ch/software/dosfstools/
Summary     : Utilities for making and checking MS-DOS FAT filesystems on Linux
Description :
The dosfstools package includes the mkdosfs and dosfsck utilities,
which respectively make and check MS-DOS FAT filesystems on hard
drives or on floppies.

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Update Information:

This is an update that fixes problem with crash that can occur during fsck of VFAT filesystem containing orphaned files. Reproducer is included in bug 674095 comment 9.
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ChangeLog:

* Mon Jan 31 2011 Jaroslav Škarvada <jskarvad at redhat.com> - 3.0.9-5
- Fixed buffer overflow in alloc_rootdir_entry (#674095)
- Dropped fix-reclaim-file patch, obsoleted by fix-alloc-rootdir-entry patch
* Fri Jan  7 2011 Jaroslav Škarvada <jskarvad at redhat.com> - 3.0.9-4
- Fixed buffer overflow in reclaim file (#660154)
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #674095 - [abrt] dosfstools-3.0.9-4.fc14: _IO_str_chk_overflow: Process /sbin/dosfsck was killed by signal 6 (SIGABRT)
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=674095
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update dosfstools' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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