Fedora 18 Update: squashfs-tools-4.3-0.18.gitaae0aff4.fc18

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2013-12979
2013-07-14 23:25:47
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Name        : squashfs-tools
Product     : Fedora 18
Version     : 4.3
Release     : 0.18.gitaae0aff4.fc18
URL         : http://squashfs.sourceforge.net/
Summary     : Utility for the creation of squashfs filesystems
Description :
Squashfs is a highly compressed read-only filesystem for Linux.  This package
contains the utilities for manipulating squashfs filesystems.

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Update Information:

Despite being a pre-release, I believe this version is better than 4.2. In particular there is a lot more checking to make sure bad data won't lead to a compromise.
The only place where you might need to tweak something is if you are using exclude or sort lists with " or \ in file names. These are now treated specially.
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ChangeLog:

* Sun Jul 14 2013 Bruno Wolff III <bruno at wolff.to> - 4.3-0.18.gitaae0aff4
- Latest pre 4.3 stable snapshot
- Improvements in getting status info while running unsquashfs
- Includes fix for mksquashfs hangs
- Switch to get pre-release updates from the stable branch at kernel.org
- Fix for a rare race condition
- queue fragment and empty file buffers directly to main thread
- Includes upstream bugfix introduced with the sequential queue change
- Sequential queue change
- SIGQUIT now displays the file being squashed
- Pick up some more error handling improvements
- Move mksquashfs to /usr/sbin, as per UsrMove.
- Add mksquashfs.1 and unsquashfs.1 manpages from Debian.
- Better error handling when space runs out
- New option to display compression options used
- Some error message improvements
- More checks for bad data
- Quote and backslash parsing for lexical analyzer
- A few memory leak fixes
- Additional checks for handling bad data
- Better checking of data in psuedo files
- Better checking of data in sort, extract and exclude files
- Pick up a few more changes to better handle bad data
- This update includes a bit of internal code infrastructure changes
- There are lots of fixes to better handle bad data
- The final release is (was) expected sometime in December (2012)
- Until the release only the README doc file is available
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update squashfs-tools' at the command line.
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available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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