[SECURITY] Fedora 19 Update: readline-6.2-8.fc19

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2014-7496
2014-06-19 22:08:35
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Name        : readline
Product     : Fedora 19
Version     : 6.2
Release     : 8.fc19
URL         : http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/php/chet/readline/rltop.html
Summary     : A library for editing typed command lines
Description :
The Readline library provides a set of functions that allow users to
edit command lines. Both Emacs and vi editing modes are available. The
Readline library includes additional functions for maintaining a list
of previously-entered command lines for recalling or editing those
lines, and for performing csh-like history expansion on previous
commands.

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Update Information:

readline in Fedora is very slow when rl_event_hook is used, this update fix it.
Security patch for debug function
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ChangeLog:

* Thu Jun 19 2014 Jiří Klimeš <jklimes at redhat.com> - 6.2-8
- resolves: #1109946
  input: fix rl_read_key slowness when using rl_event_hook
* Mon May 26 2014 jchaloup <jchaloup at redhat.com> - 6.2-7
- resolves: #1077026
  Security patch for debug functions
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #1109946 - readline in Fedora is very slow when rl_event_hook is used
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1109946
  [ 2 ] Bug #1077026 - readline: insecure temporary file use in _rl_tropen() [fedora-all]
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1077026
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use
su -c 'yum update readline' at the command line.
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