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Fedora 34: 2021-303f6623fa Critical: Epiphany Directory Traversal Issue

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Calendar Grey March 19, 2021
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The Fedora 34 epiphany update, released as of 2021-303f6623fa, emphasizes crucial security enhancements for various GNOME elements and introduces key upgrades to the browsing experience.
GNOME 40.rc

Summary

Epiphany is the web browser for the GNOME desktop. Its goal is to be

simple and easy to use. Epiphany ties together many GNOME components

in order to let you focus on the Web content, instead of the browser

application.

GNOME 40.rc

* Mon Mar 15 2021 Kalev Lember - 1:40~rc-1

- Update to 40.rc

[ 1 ] Bug #1925640 - CVE-2020-36241 gnome-autoar: directory traversal via a malicious archive that contains a file whose parent is a symbolic link which points outside of the destination directory

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1925640

[ 2 ] Bug #1940026 - CVE-2021-28650 gnome-autoar: directory traversal during extraction because it lacks a check of whether a file's parent is a symlink in certain complex situations

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1940026

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2021-303f6623fa' 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 34
Version: 40~rc
Release: 1.fc34
Summary: Web browser for GNOME

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