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Fedora 32: FEDORA-2020-238bbf85d8 Critical: Oddjob Race Condition

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Calendar Grey May 13, 2020
Dist Fedora Esm H88
A security update for oddjob in Fedora 32 resolves a critical race condition that may facilitate symlink exploitation. Users are urged to upgrade promptly.
This update includes a security fix for CVE-2020-10737

Summary

oddjob is a D-Bus service which performs particular tasks for clients which

connect to it and issue requests using the system-wide message bus.

This update includes a security fix for CVE-2020-10737. Additionally, From

0.34.6: - update license on src/buffer.h - changes "/var/run" to "/run" in

systemd service file (Orion Poplawski, #1834511) From 0.34.5: - apply patch

from Matthias Gerstner of the SUSE security team to fix a possible race

condition in the mkhomedir helper (noted above, this fixes CVE-2020-10737) -only process SELinux contexts if SELinux is not disabled (Alexander Bokovoy,

#1828855)

* Thu May 7 2020 Nalin Dahyabhai - 0.34.6-1

- update license on src/buffer.h

- change /var/run -> /run in systemd service file (Orion Poplawski)

* Thu May 7 2020 Nalin Dahyabhai - 0.34.5-1

- apply patch from Matthias Gerstner of the SUSE security team to fix a

possible race condition in the mkhomedir helper (CVE-2020-10737)

- only process SELinux contexts if SELinux is not disabled (Alexander Bokovoy)

[ 1 ] Bug #1833042 - CVE-2020-10737 oddjob: race condition in oddjob_selinux_mkdir function in mkhomedir.c can lead to symlink attack

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1833042

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2020-238bbf85d8' 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 32
Version: 0.34.6
Release: 1.fc32
Summary: A D-Bus service which runs odd jobs on behalf of client applications

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