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Fedora: 2020-8aa8793d25 Critical: hylafax+ Update for Privilege Escalation

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Calendar Grey August 12, 2020
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The recent update for hylafax+ version 7.0.3 on Fedora 31 resolves critical vulnerabilities linked to code execution and potential privilege elevation.
update to 7.0.3

Summary

HylaFAX(tm) is a enterprise-strength fax server supporting

Class 1 and 2 fax modems on UNIX systems. It provides spooling

services and numerous supporting fax management tools.

The fax clients may reside on machines different from the server

and client implementations exist for a number of platforms including

windows.

update to 7.0.3

* Tue Aug 4 2020 Lee Howard - 7.0.3-1

- update to 7.0.3

* Tue Jul 28 2020 Fedora Release Engineering - 7.0.2-2

- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_33_Mass_Rebuild

* Thu Jan 30 2020 Lee Howard - 7.0.2-1

- update to 7.0.2

* Wed Jan 29 2020 Fedora Release Engineering - 7.0.1-2

- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_32_Mass_Rebuild

[ 1 ] Bug #1852803 - CVE-2020-15397 hylafax+: unsafe handling of user-writable directories could lead to privileged code execution

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1852803

[ 2 ] Bug #1852809 - CVE-2020-15396 hylafax+: race condition in faxsetup utility could lead to privileges escalation

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1852809

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2020-8aa8793d25' 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

https://fedoraproject.org/security/

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Change Log

References

Update Instructions

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Product: Fedora 31
Version: 7.0.3
Release: 1.fc31
Summary: An enterprise-strength fax server

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