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Fedora 29: 672c028631 Critical: sos-collector Permission Issue

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Delve into the recent Fedora 29 enhancement regarding sos-collector, effectively addressing CVE-2018-14650 vulnerabilities while bolstering overall security.
Update to new 1.5 release

Summary

sos-collector is a utility designed to capture sosreports from multiple nodes

at once and collect them into a single archive. If the nodes are part of

a cluster, profiles can be used to configure how the sosreport command

is run on the nodes.

Update to new 1.5 release. Resolves CVE-2018-14650

* Tue Oct 16 2018 Jake Hunsaker - 1.5-3

- Pull in fixes for non-root local execution and bytes conversion

* Thu Oct 11 2018 Jake Hunsaker - 1.5-1

- New upstream release

- Resolves CVE-2018-14650

[ 1 ] Bug #1633659 - CVE-2018-14650 sos-collector: incorrect permissions set on newly created files [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1633659

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2018-672c028631' 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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Product: Fedora 29
Version: 1.5
Release: 3.fc29
Summary: Capture sosreports from multiple nodes simultaneously

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