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**Summary** Security: - Patched CVE-2026-5958: Time-of-Check Time-of-Use (TOCTOU) Race Condition - Change log mention: sed --follow-symlinks -i no longer has a TOCTOU race that could let an attacker swap a symlink between resolution and open, causing sed to read attacker-chosen content and write it to the original target. [Full Change Log](https://savannah.gnu.org/news/?id=10885)
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