PaulHowarth/Blog/2017-05-22

Monday 22nd May 2017

Fedora Project

  • Updated perl-Exporter-Tiny to 1.000000 in F-26 and Rawhide:

    • Repackage as 1.000000
  • Updated perltidy to 20170521 in F-24, F-25, F-26 and Rawhide:

    • Includes fix for CVE-2016-10374: Uses current working directory without symlink-attack protection

    • See CHANGES for details of other bug fixes and enhancements

  • Updated proftpd to 1.3.6 in F-26 and Rawhide (see NEWS for details):

  • Also:
    • Updated mod_vroot to 0.9.5 (API compatibility with 1.3.6)

    • Added upstream fixes for flaky API tests (GH#483, GH#510, GH#514)

    • Added functionality to disable external network tests (GH#497)

    • AllowChrootSymlinks off could cause login failures depending on filesystem permissions: use the IDs of the logging-in user to perform the directory walk, looking for symlinks, to be more consistent with similar checks done during login (Bug #1443507, upstream bug 4306)

    • Updated template TLS configuration
    • Disabled PCRE support for now as JIT compiler has SELinux issues (PCRE Bug #1749)

    • Updated proftpd.service to use Type=simple rather than Type=forking (GH#506)

    • Removed redundant bind() to controls socket (GH#501)

    • Fixed similars functionality and unit test (GH#513)

Local Packages

  • Updated perl-Exporter-Tiny to 1.000000 as per the Fedora version

  • Updated perl-Params-Classify (0.013) to fix compatibility with Perl 5.26.0 (CPAN RT#114490)

  • Updated perl-Perl-Tidy to 20170521 as per the Fedora perltidy package

  • Updated proftpd to 1.3.6 as per the Fedora version


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