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Fedora 36 Update: 2022-87c0f05204 Moderate: Logrotate DoS Issue

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Calendar Grey May 27, 2022
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora 36 has patched a Denial of Service flaw in logrotate by improving security measures for unprivileged users, urging users to update and review settings
- fix potential DoS from unprivileged users via the state file (CVE-2022-1348)

Summary

The logrotate utility is designed to simplify the administration of

log files on a system which generates a lot of log files. Logrotate

allows for the automatic rotation compression, removal and mailing of

log files. Logrotate can be set to handle a log file daily, weekly,

monthly or when the log file gets to a certain size.

Install the logrotate package if you need a utility to deal with the

log files on your system.

- fix potential DoS from unprivileged users via the state file (CVE-2022-1348)

* Wed May 25 2022 Kamil Dudka - 3.20.1-1

- new upstream version 3.20.1, which fixes the following security issue:

CVE-2022-1348 - potential DoS from unprivileged users via the state file

* Tue Mar 15 2022 Kamil Dudka - 3.19.0-3

- verify GPG signature of upstream tarball when building the package

[ 1 ] Bug #2090272 - CVE-2022-1348 logrotate: potential DoS from unprivileged users via the state file [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2090272

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2022-87c0f05204' at the command

line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

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

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the

GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at

https://fedoraproject.org/security/

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Product: Fedora 36
Version: 3.20.1
Release: 1.fc36
Summary: Rotates, compresses, removes and mails system log files

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