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A xterm security update has been released for Fedora 33.



SECURITY: Fedora 33 Update: xterm-366-1.fc33


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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2021-e7a8e79fa8
2021-02-26 01:07:35.018721
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Name : xterm
Product : Fedora 33
Version : 366
Release : 1.fc33
URL :   https://invisible-island.net/xterm
Summary : Terminal emulator for the X Window System
Description :
The xterm program is a terminal emulator for the X Window System. It
provides DEC VT102 and Tektronix 4014 compatible terminals for
programs that can't use the window system directly.

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Update Information:

Security fix for CVE-2021-27135
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ChangeLog:

* Thu Feb 11 2021 Tomas Korbar - 366-1
- Rebase to version 366
- Resolves: rhbz#1927543
* Wed Feb 3 2021 Tomas Korbar - 364-1
- Rebase to version 364 (#1924362)
- Build with pcre2 support (#1909609)
* Thu Jan 28 2021 Fedora Release Engineering - 363-2
- Rebuilt for   https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_34_Mass_Rebuild
* Tue Jan 19 2021 Tomas Korbar - 363-1
- Rebase to version 363 (#1910995)
- Build with pcre2 support (#1909609)
* Fri Nov 13 2020 Tomas Korbar - 362-1
- Rebase to version 362 (#1896986)
* Thu Oct 22 2020 Tomas Korbar - 361-1
- Rebase to version 361 (#1888488)
* Mon Sep 21 2020 Tomas Korbar - 360-1
- Rebase to version 360 (#1880883)
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References:

[ 1 ] Bug #1927570 - CVE-2021-27135 xterm: crash when processing combining characters [fedora-all]
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1927570
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2021-e7a8e79fa8' 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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