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Fedora 34: FEDORA-2021-cdbd827c1e Moderate: Squashfs-tools Path Issue

fedora
Calendar Grey August 30, 2021
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Squashfs-tools version 4.5 brings a crucial security patch to Fedora 34, addressing risks related to unchecked file paths, thereby reinforcing file integrity.
4.5 release (includes security fix for CVE-2021-40153)

Summary

Squashfs is a highly compressed read-only filesystem for Linux. This package

contains the utilities for manipulating squashfs filesystems.

4.5 release (includes security fix for CVE-2021-40153)

* Mon Jul 26 2021 Bruno Wolff III - 4.5-2

- Fix for sparse fragment bug 1985561

* Fri Jul 23 2021 Bruno Wolff III - 4.5-1

- First crack at 4.5 release

- Man pages still need significant work

[ 1 ] Bug #1998621 - CVE-2021-40153 squashfs-tools: unvalidated filepaths allow writing outside of destination

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1998621

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2021-cdbd827c1e' 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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Update Instructions

Product: Fedora 34
Version: 4.5
Release: 2.fc34
Summary: Utility for the creation of squashfs filesystems

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