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Fedora 37: FEDORA-2023-275c12e496 Critical: Composer Remote Code Exec

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Calendar Grey October 15, 2023
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora 37 Package Upgrade: Resolution of security loophole for remote code execution risks along with multiple improvements.
**Version 2.6.5** - 2023-10-06 * Fixed error when vendor dir contains broken symlinks (#11670) * Fixed composer.lock missing from Composer's zip archives (#11674) * Fixed Autolo...

Summary

Composer helps you declare, manage and install dependencies of PHP projects,

ensuring you have the right stack everywhere.

Documentation: https://getcomposer.org/doc/

Update Information:

**Version 2.6.5** - 2023-10-06 * Fixed error when vendor dir contains broken symlinks (#11670) * Fixed composer.lock missing from Composer's zip archives (#11674) * Fixed AutoloadGenerator::dump() non-BC signature change in 2.6.4 (cb363b0e8) ---- **Version 2.6.4** - 2023-09-29 * Security: Fixed possible remote code execution vulnerability if composer.phar is publicly accessible, executable as PHP, and register_argc_argv is enabled in php.ini (GHSA-jm6m-4632-36hf / **CVE-2023-43655**) * Fixed json output of abandoned packages in audit command (#11647) * Performance improvement in pool optimization step (#11638) * Performance improvement in `show -a ` (#11659)

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Topics Covered

security advisory update critical Fedora remote code execution composer

Change Log

* Fri Oct 6 2023 Remi Collet - 2.6.5-1 - update to 2.6.5 * Fri Sep 29 2023 Remi Collet - 2.6.4-1 - update to 2.6.4

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2241496 - CVE-2023-43655 composer: Remote Code Execution via web-accessible composer.phar https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2241496

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2023-275c12e496' 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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Name: composer
Product: Fedora 37
Version: 2.6.5
Release: 1.fc37
URL: https://getcomposer.org/
Summary: Dependency Manager for PHP

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Topics Covered

security advisory update critical Fedora remote code execution composer

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