[relnotes] [Fedora Project Wiki] Update of "Docs/Beats/Security" by PaulFrields

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http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Beats/Security?action=diff&rev2=61&rev1=60

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  === FORTIFY_SOURCE extended to cover more functions ===
  
- [:Security/Features#FORTIFY_SOURCE:FORTIFY_SOURCE] protection now covers `asprintf`, `dprintf`, `vasprintf`, `vdprintf`, `obstack_printf` and `obstack_vprintf`. This is particularly useful for application that use the `glib2` library, as various functions from it use `vasprintf`.
+ [:Security/Features#FORTIFY_SOURCE:FORTIFY_SOURCE] protection now covers `asprintf`, `dprintf`, `vasprintf`, `vdprintf`, `obstack_printf` and `obstack_vprintf`. This improvement is particularly useful for applications that use the `glib2` library, as several of its functions use `vasprintf`.
  
  === SELinux Enhancements ===
  Different roles are now available, to allow finer-grained access control:




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