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Fedora 44 Calibre 9.6.0 Important Server-Side Request Forgery Patch

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Calendar Grey April 25, 2026
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Update calibre 9.6.0 in Fedora 44 fixes critical security issues affecting e-book management system.
Update to 9.6.0

Summary

Calibre is meant to be a complete e-library solution. It includes library

management, format conversion, news feeds to ebook conversion as well as

e-book reader sync features.

Calibre is primarily a ebook cataloging program. It manages your ebook

collection for you. It is designed around the concept of the logical book,

i.e. a single entry in the database that may correspond to ebooks in several

formats. It also supports conversion to and from a dozen different ebook

formats.

Supported input formats are: MOBI, LIT, PRC, EPUB, CHM, ODT, HTML, CBR, CBZ,

RTF, TXT, PDF and LRS.

Update Information:

Update to 9.6.0. Fixes rhbz#2452087

Change Log

* Sun Mar 29 2026 Kevin Fenzi - 9.6.0-1 - Update to 9.6.0. Fixes rhbz#2452087

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2452087 - calibre-9.6.0 is available https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2452087 [ 2 ] Bug #2452379 - CVE-2026-33205 calibre: server-side request forgery in ebook viewer backend [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2452379 [ 3 ] Bug #2452380 - CVE-2026-33206 calibre: path traversal allows reading arbitrary files when converting a text-based file [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2452380

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2026-7de23151cd' 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

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Name: calibre
Product: Fedora 44
Version: 9.6.0
Release: 1.fc44
Summary: E-book converter and library manager

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