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Fedora 29: 2018-be6e73f746 Critical Matrix-Synapse Security Update

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Calendar Grey September 21, 2018
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Important security patch for matrix-synapse on Fedora 29 targeting disclosed vulnerabilities to ensure secure messaging.
Fixes CVE-2018-16515

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.

Fixes CVE-2018-16515

[ 1 ] Bug #1626111 - CVE-2018-16515 matrix-synapse: pre-disclosure of critical vulnerability

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1626111

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2018-be6e73f746' 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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https://fedoraproject.org/security/

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Change Log

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Update Instructions

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Product: Fedora 29
Version: 0.33.3.1
Release: 1.fc29
Summary: A Matrix reference homeserver written in Python using Twisted

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