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Fedora 38: 2023-04243a1845 Urgent: Iperf3 Memory Safety Patch

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Calendar Grey July 29, 2023
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Crucial patch issued for iperf3 in Fedora 38 targeting severe memory vulnerabilities. Full information enclosed.
Update to 3.14

Summary

Iperf is a tool to measure maximum TCP bandwidth, allowing the tuning of

various parameters and UDP characteristics. Iperf reports bandwidth, delay

jitter, data-gram loss.

Update Information:

Update to 3.14. Security fix for CVE-2023-38403

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Topics Covered

security advisory update critical Fedora security fix memory hazard iperf3

Change Log

* Tue Jul 18 2023 Jonathan Wright - 3.14-1 - update to 3.14 rhbz#2183634 - Security fix for CVE-2023-38403 rhbz#2222204 rhbz#2223495

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2223495 - TRIAGE iperf3: memory allocation hazard and crash [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2223495

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2023-04243a1845' 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: iperf3
Product: Fedora 38
Version: 3.14
Release: 1.fc38
URL: https://github.com/esnet/iperf
Summary: Measurement tool for TCP/UDP bandwidth performance

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Topics Covered

security advisory update critical Fedora security fix memory hazard iperf3

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