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A gerbv security update has been released for Fedora 36.



SECURITY: Fedora 36 Update: gerbv-2.8.2-1.fc36


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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2022-e819bd191f
2022-05-07 04:08:14.315546
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Name : gerbv
Product : Fedora 36
Version : 2.8.2
Release : 1.fc36
URL :   https://github.com/gerbv/gerbv
Summary : Gerber file viewer from the gEDA toolkit
Description :
Gerber Viewer (gerbv) is a viewer for Gerber files. Gerber files
are generated from PCB CAD system and sent to PCB manufacturers
as basis for the manufacturing process. The standard supported
by gerbv is RS-274X.

gerbv also supports drill files. The format supported are known
under names as NC-drill or Excellon. The format is a bit undefined
and different EDA-vendors implement it different.

gerbv is listed among Fedora Electronic Lab (FEL) packages.

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Update Information:

Project is forked. Now maintained in GitHub. Contains security fixes.
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ChangeLog:

* Mon Apr 18 2022 Alain Vigne - 2.8.2-1
- Project is forked. Now maintained in GitHub
- Split doc into -doc package
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References:

[ 1 ] Bug #2051389 - CVE-2021-40403 gerbv:pick-and-place rotation parsing use of uninitialized variable vulnerability
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2051389
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2022-e819bd191f' 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

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
  https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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