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Fedora 29: FEDORA-2018-ab1234xyz Major: Synapse Vulnerabilities Identified

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The latest update of matrix-synapse version 0.31.2 fixes two major security flaws. Users should follow the installation guide in the documentation for a secure upgrade
Update to latest Synapse release which fixes CVE-2018-12291 (0.31.1) and a second security bug in 0.31.2: https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/releases/tag/v0.31.2 This update inc...

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 Synapse release which fixes CVE-2018-12291 (0.31.1) and a

second security bug in 0.31.2: https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/releases/tag/v0.31.2 This update includes a new package which is a

dependency introduced by synapse-0.31

* 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.

[ 1 ] Bug #1590102 - CVE-2018-12291 matrix-synapse: Missing event filtering in handlers/federation.py [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1590102

[ 2 ] Bug #1578181 - matrix-synapse-0.31.1 is available

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1578181

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2018-6e759af8fb' at the command

line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

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

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Product: Fedora 28
Version: 0.31.2
Release: 1.fc28
Summary: A Matrix reference homeserver written in Python using Twisted

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