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Fedora 27: 2018-09-27 Security Update for Yum-Utils: Path Traversal

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Fedora 27 yum-utils security patch resolves CVE-2018-10897 path exposure vulnerabilities, along with comprehensive installation guidelines provided.
Security fix for CVE-2018-10897

Summary

yum-utils is a collection of utilities and examples for the yum package

manager. It includes utilities by different authors that make yum easier and

more powerful to use. These tools include: debuginfo-install,

find-repos-of-install, needs-restarting, package-cleanup, repoclosure,

repodiff, repo-graph, repomanage, repoquery, repo-rss, reposync,

repotrack, show-installed, show-changed-rco, verifytree, yumdownloader,

yum-builddep, yum-complete-transaction, yum-config-manager, yum-debug-dump,

yum-debug-restore and yum-groups-manager.

Security fix for CVE-2018-10897

* Fri Aug 31 2018 Michal Domonkos - 1.1.31-514

- reposync: prevent path traversal (CVE-2018-10897)

- Resolves: bug#1600454

[ 1 ] Bug #1600221 - CVE-2018-10897 yum-utils: reposync: improper path validation may lead to directory traversal

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1600221

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2018-3aafb854a9' 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/

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Change Log

References

Update Instructions

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Product: Fedora 27
Version: 1.1.31
Release: 514.fc27
Summary: Utilities based around the yum package manager

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