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Fedora 28: 2019-c6044b3fce Moderate: matrix-synapse Buffer Overflow

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Patch addressing CVE-2019-5885 now available for matrix-synapse on Fedora 28. Please review the provided upgrade instructions to align your deployment accordingly.
Fix for CVE-2019-5885 Upgrade notes available at https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/blob/v0.34.0/UPGRADE.rst#upgrading-to-v0340 - Note this continues to use Python 2.

Summary

Matrix is an ambitious new ecosystem for open federated Instant Messaging and

VoIP. Synapse is a reference "homeserver" implementation of Matrix from the

core development team at matrix.org, written in Python/Twisted. It is intended

to showcase the concept of Matrix and let folks see the spec in the context of

a coded base and let you run your own homeserver and generally help bootstrap

the ecosystem.

Fix for CVE-2019-5885 Upgrade notes available at https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/blob/v0.34.0/UPGRADE.rst#upgrading-to-v0340 - Note this continues to

use Python 2.

* Fri Jan 11 2019 Jeremy Cline - 0.34.0.1-1

- Update to v0.34.0.1, fixes CVE-2019-5885

* Thu Sep 6 2018 Jeremy Cline - 0.33.3.1-1

- Update to v0.33.3.1

- Use the Python dependency generator.

* Thu Jun 14 2018 Jeremy Cline - 0.31.2-1

- Update to v0.31.2

- https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/releases/tag/v0.31.2

* Wed Jun 13 2018 Jeremy Cline - 0.31.1-3

- Bring back the pin for pynacl

* Wed Jun 13 2018 Jeremy Cline - 0.31.1-2

- Stop using Python dependency generator

* Wed Jun 13 2018 Jeremy Cline - 0.31.1-1

- Update to v0.31.1

- Fix CVE-2018-12291

* Thu May 24 2018 Jeremy Cline - 0.29.1-1

- Update to the latest upstream release.

- Use the Python dependency generator.

* Tue May 1 2018 Jeremy Cline - 0.28.1-1

- Update to the latest upstream release.

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2019-c6044b3fce' 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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Change Log

References

Update Instructions

Product: Fedora 28
Version: 0.34.0.1
Release: 2.fc28
Summary: A Matrix reference homeserver written in Python using Twisted

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