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Fedora 28: FEDORA-2018-f513267ac5 Critical: Matrix-Synapse DoS Issue

fedora
Calendar Grey May 15, 2018
Dist Fedora Esm H88
This patch fixes an important vulnerability found in Matrix Synapse for Fedora 28. Discover how to perform the upgrade process.
Update to latest upstream

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.

Update to latest upstream

* Tue May 1 2018 Jeremy Cline - 0.28.1-1

- Update to the latest upstream release.

[ 1 ] Bug #1567107 - matrix-synapse-0.28.0 is available

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1567107

[ 2 ] Bug #1574780 - CVE-2018-10657 matrix-synapse: Injection of malicious events with a depth size of 2^63-1 can cause a denial of service to making rooms unusable [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1574780

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2018-f513267ac5' 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

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

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Update Instructions

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Product: Fedora 28
Version: 0.28.1
Release: 1.fc28
Summary: A Matrix reference homeserver written in Python using Twisted

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