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Fedora 26: FEDORA-2017-0e4021062c Moderate: Privilege Escalation

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Calendar Grey December 12, 2017
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The Fedora 27 release for fedora-arm-installer resolves a security vulnerability related to privilege escalation in all versions before 2.2.
Update to 2.1 ---- Update to 2.0, Initial support for aarch64 images and associated SBCs

Summary

Allows one to first select a source image (local or remote). The image must be

a binary file containing: [MBR + Partitions + File Systems + Data]. A

destination block device should then be selected for final installation.

Update to 2.1 ---- Update to 2.0, Initial support for aarch64 images and

associated SBCs

[ 1 ] Bug #1464968 - CVE-2017-7496 fedora-arm-installer: Unsafe mount in /tmp allows privilege escalation

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1464968

su -c 'dnf upgrade fedora-arm-installer' at the command line.

For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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/security/

package-announce mailing list -- package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org

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Change Log

References

Update Instructions

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Product: Fedora 26
Version: 2.1
Release: 1.fc26
Summary: Writes binary image files to any specified block device

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