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Fedora: 2020-2578d943d2 Critical: matrix-synapse DoS Issue Update

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Calendar Grey December 9, 2020
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora has released an update that tackles vulnerabilities within python-canonicaljson and matrix-synapse, effectively addressing significant Denial of Service threats.
Update matrix-synapse to 1.23.0 to resolve CVE-2020-26890

Summary

Features:

* Encodes objects and arrays as RFC 7159 JSON.

* Sorts object keys so that you get the same result each time.

* Has no inignificant whitespace to make the output as small as possible.

* Escapes only the characters that must be escaped,

U+0000 to U+0019 / U+0022 / U+0056, to keep the output as small as possible.

* Uses the shortest escape sequence for each escaped character.

* Encodes the JSON as UTF-8.

* Can encode frozendict immutable dictionaries.

Update matrix-synapse to 1.23.0 to resolve CVE-2020-26890. There may be

breaking changes, please review prior to upgrade: https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/blob/develop/UPGRADE.rst

* Mon Nov 30 2020 Gwyn Ciesla - 1.4.0-1

- 1.4.0

[ 1 ] Bug #1796270 - python-signedjson-1.1.1 is available

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1796270

[ 2 ] Bug #1840452 - matrix-synapse-1.23.0 is available

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1840452

[ 3 ] Bug #1861208 - python-canonicaljson-1.4.0 is available

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1861208

[ 4 ] Bug #1864122 - matrix-synapse: FTBFS in Fedora rawhide/f33

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1864122

[ 5 ] Bug #1901509 - CVE-2020-26890 matrix-synapse: DoS attack due to invalid JSON [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1901509

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2020-2578d943d2' 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 33
Version: 1.4.0
Release: 1.fc33
Summary: Canonical JSON

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