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Fedora 39: 2023-d5ab1f0b44 Important Advisory on Composer RCE Risk

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Calendar Grey November 3, 2023
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Composer version 2.6.5 for Fedora addresses security vulnerabilities related to remote code execution and enhances efficiency. Be sure to update your libraries without delay!
**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 critical software update Fedora remote code execution dependency manager 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-d5ab1f0b44' 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 39
Version: 2.6.5
Release: 1.fc39
URL: https://getcomposer.org/
Summary: Dependency Manager for PHP

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical software update Fedora remote code execution dependency manager Composer

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