[SECURITY] Fedora 20 Update: mksh-50c-1.fc20

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2014-12242
2014-10-05 06:44:16
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Name        : mksh
Product     : Fedora 20
Version     : 50c
Release     : 1.fc20
URL         : https://www.mirbsd.org/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:

R50c is a security fix release:

  * Know more rare signals when generating sys_signame[] replacement
  * OpenBSD sync (mostly RCSID only)
  * Document HISTSIZE limit; found by luigi_345 on IRC
  * Fix link to Debian .mkshrc
  * Cease exporting $RANDOM (Debian #760857)
  * Fix C99 compatibility
  * Work around klibc bug causing a coredump (Debian #763842)
  * Use issetugid(2) as additional check if we are FPRIVILEGED
  * SECURITY: do not permit += from environment
  * Fix more field splitting bugs reported by Stephane Chazelas and mikeserv; document current status wrt. ambiguous ones as testcases too
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ChangeLog:

* Fri Oct  3 2014 Robert Scheck <robert at fedoraproject.org> 50c-1
- Upgrade to 50c
* Thu Sep 11 2014 Robert Scheck <robert at fedoraproject.org> 50b-1
- Upgrade to 50b
* Sun Aug 17 2014 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng at lists.fedoraproject.org> - 50-2
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_21_22_Mass_Rebuild
* Thu Jul  3 2014 Robert Scheck <robert at fedoraproject.org> 50-1
- Upgrade to 50
* Sat Jun  7 2014 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng at lists.fedoraproject.org> - 49-2
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_21_Mass_Rebuild
* Tue Jan 14 2014 Robert Scheck <robert at fedoraproject.org> 49-1
- Upgrade to 49
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #1149626 - mksh: do not permit += from environment
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1149626
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use
su -c 'yum update mksh' at the command line.
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available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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