Fedora 18 Update: finger-0.17-46.fc18

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-16213
2012-10-16 17:31:58
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Name        : finger
Product     : Fedora 18
Version     : 0.17
Release     : 46.fc18
URL         : None
Summary     : The finger client
Description :
Finger is a utility which allows users to see information about system
users (login name, home directory, name, how long they've been logged
in to the system, etc.).  The finger package includes a standard
finger client.

You should install finger if you'd like to retrieve finger information
from other systems.

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Update Information:

This update fixes one bug. Finger would segfault if pw->pw_gecos is NULL in match() function (file finger/util.c).
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #866873 - finger segfaults if pw->pw_gecos is NULL.
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=866873
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update finger' 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 Project 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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