Fedora 42: checkpointctl 1.4.1 Critical CVE-2025-47906 Security Patch
fedora
December 19, 2025
Update checkpointctl to 1.4.1 (CVE-2025-47906)
Summary
The checkpointctl command can be used for in-depth analysis of
container checkpoints created with Podman and Kubernetes.
Update Information:
Update checkpointctl to 1.4.1 (CVE-2025-47906)
Topics Covered
Change Log
* Wed Dec 10 2025 Adrian Reber
References
[ 1 ] Bug #2399324 - CVE-2025-47906 checkpointctl: Unexpected paths returned from LookPath in os/exec [fedora-42]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2399324
[ 2 ] Bug #2412747 - CVE-2025-58183 checkpointctl: Unbounded allocation when parsing GNU sparse map [fedora-42]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2412747
Update Instructions
This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2025-909f303a85' 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: checkpointctl
Product: Fedora 42
Version: 1.4.1
Release: 1.fc42
Summary: A command-line tool for in-depth analysis of container checkpoints
Topics Covered
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