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Fedora 35: FEDORA-2021-7cde8931fe Critical: Squashfs-Tools Exploit

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Calendar Grey September 24, 2021
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Essential update for Fedora 35 rectifying a vulnerability in squashfs-tools designed to inhibit unlawful write operations.
Fix additional write outside destination directory exploit

Summary

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

contains the utilities for manipulating squashfs filesystems.

Fix additional write outside destination directory exploit

* Mon Sep 13 2021 Bruno Wolff III - 4.5-3.20210913gite048580

- Fix bug 2003701 (additional write outside destination directory exploit)

[ 1 ] Bug #2003701 - Private bug

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2003701

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2021-7cde8931fe' at the command

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https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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Product: Fedora 35
Version: 4.5
Release: 3.20210913gite048580.fc35
Summary: Utility for the creation of squashfs filesystems

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