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Fedora 39: FEDORA-2024-17e71fc540 Critical HMAC Security Issue

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Calendar Grey June 16, 2024
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Fedora 39 has released an update targeting CVE-2024-3049 for booth, significantly bolstering security by implementing essential corrections in HMAC management.
Security fix for CVE-2024-3049

Summary

Booth manages tickets which authorize cluster sites located

in geographically dispersed locations to run resources.

It facilitates support of geographically distributed

clustering in Pacemaker.

Update Information:

Security fix for CVE-2024-3049

Change Log

* Fri Jun 7 2024 Jan Friesse - 1.0-283.5.9d4029a.git - attr: Fix reading of server_reply - auth: Check result of gcrypt gcry_md_get_algo_dlen (fixes CVE-2024-3049)

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2272082 - CVE-2024-3049 booth: specially crafted hash can lead to invalid HMAC being accepted by Booth server https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2272082

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2024-17e71fc540' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label

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Name: booth
Product: Fedora 39
Version: 1.0
Release: 283.5.9d4029a.git.fc39
Summary: Ticket Manager for Multi-site Clusters

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