-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2026-32742a29dc 2026-09-27 00:56:07.318354+00:00 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : ckermit Product : Fedora 44 Version : 11.0.509 Release : 2.fc44 URL : https://www.openkermit.org/ Summary : The quintessential all-purpose communications program Description : C-Kermit is a combined serial and network communication software package offering a consistent, medium-independent, cross-platform approach to connection establishment, terminal sessions, file transfer and management, character-set translation, and automation of communication tasks. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: Update to 11.0.509 which fixes CVE-2025-68920 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Thu Sep 17 2026 Martin Jackson <[email protected]> - 11.0.509-2 - Conditionalize tests - skip on EL8 and EL9 due to missing pyftpdlib. Run tests by default. - Include new docs files. * Thu Sep 17 2026 Martin Jackson <[email protected]> - 11.0.509-1 - Update to 11.0.509 - Link with -llockdev (upstream linux target passes -DHAVE_LOCKDEV instead) - Keep optflags/ldflags so debuginfo is generated * Wed Jul 29 2026 John Goerzen <[email protected]> - 11.0.505-1 - Update to 11.0.505 - Upstream noticed the discussion in README.fedora and clarified the error message. Discussion in README.fedora updated. - Drop -D'krb5_init_ets(__ctx)=' from KFLAGS and the The makefile rules in use here never define CK_KERBEROS, so krb5_init_ets() was never compiled in to begin with; the macro override has done nothing since we moved off the old Kerberos-enabled Red Hat build target from around 2005 (see the 8.0.211 changelog entry below: "remove now-unnecessary use of krb5_init_ets()"). - Drop ckermit-9.0.302-fix_build_with_glibc_2_28_and_earlier.patch. Upstream modernization already addressed this. - Drop ckermit-9.0.302-printw.patch; upstream independently replaced the one remaining unsafe printw() call with fputs() - Drop ckermit-9.0.302-fedora-c99.patch: all missing #includes it added have been added upstream via generic mechanisms - Drop -DMAINTYPE=int and -ansi from KFLAGS. -DMAINTYPE=int is unnecessary due to typedef upstream. -ansi also is no longer necessary due to upstream modernization. - Add "make check"/pytest test suite integration, gated by a new "tests" bcond - %files: replace %doc ckc302.txt, which no longer exists in this release. doc/*.md in the source tree now provides various documentation. - URL: point at the current project home, openkermit.org, instead of the old kermitproject.org ck90.html page, which described the 9.0 release specifically * Wed Jul 15 2026 Fedora Release Engineering <[email protected]> - 9.0.302-43 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_45_Mass_Rebuild * Fri Jun 12 2026 Yaakov Selkowitz <[email protected]> - 9.0.302-42 - Rebuilt for openssl 4.0 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #2425363 - CVE-2025-68920 ckermit: From CVEorg collector [fedora-43] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2425363 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2026-32742a29dc' 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- _______________________________________________ package-announce mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] Do not reply to spam, report it: https://forge.fedoraproject.org/infra/tickets/issues/new
