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A gnulib security update has been released for Fedora 30



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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2020-acac61cfd0
2020-01-16 22:29:29.725248
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Name : gnulib
Product : Fedora 30
Version : 0
Release : 31.20200107git.fc30
URL :   https://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib
Summary : GNU Portability Library
Description :

The GNU portability library is a macro system and C declarations and
definitions for commonly-used API elements and abstracted system behaviors.
It can be used to improve portability and other functionality in your programs.

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Update Information:

Security fix for [CVE-2018-17942] - Update on 2020-01-07 - CVE-2018-17942
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ChangeLog:

* Tue Jan 7 2020 Mosaab Alzoubi - 0-31.20200107git
- Update on 2020-01-07
- CVE-2018-17942
* Thu Jul 25 2019 Fedora Release Engineering - 0-30.20180720git
- Rebuilt for   https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_31_Mass_Rebuild
* Thu Mar 7 2019 Tim Landscheidt - 0-29.20180720git.fc30
- Remove obsolete requirements for post/preun scriptlets
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References:

[ 1 ] Bug #1635897 - CVE-2018-17942 gnulib: heap-based buffer overflow in convert_to_decimal function in vasnprintf.c [fedora-all]
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1635897
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2020-acac61cfd0' at the command
line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at
  http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label

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