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Fedora 34: 2021-303f6623fa Critical gnome-control-center Directory Exploit

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Calendar Grey March 19, 2021
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The recent Fedora 34 update resolves vulnerabilities in gnome-control-center, notably fixing flaws related to directory traversal.
GNOME 40.rc

Summary

This package contains configuration utilities for the GNOME desktop, which

allow to configure accessibility options, desktop fonts, keyboard and mouse

properties, sound setup, desktop theme and background, user interface

properties, screen resolution, and other settings.

GNOME 40.rc

* Mon Mar 15 2021 Kalev Lember - 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: Utilities to configure the GNOME desktop

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