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Fedora 39: 2024-8ba389815f Critical: Rust-Vergen and Libgit2 Update

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Calendar Grey February 20, 2024
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora Update Alert 2024-9bc475926g provides crucial enhancements for gimp and openssl to improve stability.
Update the git2 crate to version 0.18.2

Summary

Generate 'cargo:rustc-env' instructions via 'build.rs' for use in your

code via the env! macro.

Update Information:

Update the git2 crate to version 0.18.2. Update the libgit2-sys crate to version 0.16.2. Version 0.16.2 of the libgit2-sys crate includes an update of the bundled copy of libgit2 to version 1.7.2 to address CVE-2024-24575 and CVE-2024-24577. Since the libgit2 bindings cause applications that use them to statically link libgit2, this update also includes rebuilds of all affected applications.

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security advisory critical Fedora arbitrary code execution libgit2 rust-vergen

Change Log

* Tue Feb 13 2024 Fabio Valentini - 5.1.17-8 - Bump git2 dependency to 0.18 * Sat Jan 27 2024 Fedora Release Engineering - 5.1.17-7 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_40_Mass_Rebuild

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2263100 - TRIAGE CVE-2024-24577 rust-libgit2-sys: libgit2: arbitrary code execution due to heap corruption in git_index_add [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2263100 [ 2 ] Bug #2263105 - TRIAGE CVE-2024-24575 rust-libgit2-sys: libgit2: potential infiniate loop condition in git_revparse_single [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2263105

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2024-8ba389815f' 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: rust-vergen
Product: Fedora 39
Version: 5.1.17
Release: 8.fc39
URL: Summary : Generate cargo:rustc-env instructions for use with env!

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security advisory critical Fedora arbitrary code execution libgit2 rust-vergen

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