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Fedora 34: FEDORA-2021-303f6623fa Moderate GObject-Introspection Exploit

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Calendar Grey March 19, 2021
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora has released a vital update for gobject-introspection, crucial for GNOME apps, addressing serious security flaws to enhance user safety and system performance
GNOME 40.rc

Summary

GObject Introspection can scan C header and source files in order to

generate introspection "typelib" files. It also provides an API to examine

typelib files, useful for creating language bindings among other

things.

GNOME 40.rc

* Mon Mar 15 2021 Kalev Lember - 1.67.1-1

- Update to 1.67.1

[ 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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Change Log

References

Update Instructions

Product: Fedora 34
Version: 1.67.1
Release: 1.fc34
Summary: Introspection system for GObject-based libraries

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