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Fedora 40 Security Update: Addressing Matrix-Synapse Memory Issues

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Calendar Grey December 13, 2024
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The latest updates for Fedora's Matrix-Synapse target various concerns related to memory safety and content management flaws.
CVE-2024-52805, CVE-2024-52815, CVE-2024-53863 Backport fixes from v1.120.1

Summary

Matrix is an ambitious new ecosystem for open federated Instant Messaging and

VoIP. Synapse is a reference "homeserver" implementation of Matrix from the

core development team at matrix.org, written in Python/Twisted. It is intended

to showcase the concept of Matrix and let folks see the spec in the context of

a coded base and let you run your own homeserver and generally help bootstrap

the ecosystem.

Update Information:

CVE-2024-52805, CVE-2024-52815, CVE-2024-53863 Backport fixes from v1.120.1

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security advisory update Fedora memory exhaustion matrix-synapse backport fixes unsupported content types

Change Log

* Tue Dec 3 2024 Kai A. Hiller - 1.111.1-3 - CVE-2024-52805, CVE-2024-52815, CVE-2024-53863 * Tue Dec 3 2024 Kai A. Hiller - 1.111.1-2 - Backport fixes from v1.120.1

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2330234 - CVE-2024-52805 matrix-synapse: Synapse allows unsupported content types to lead to memory exhaustion [fedora-40] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2330234 [ 2 ] Bug #2330237 - CVE-2024-52815 matrix-synapse: A malformed invite can break the invitee's `/sync` [fedora-40] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2330237 [ 3 ] Bug #2330239 - CVE-2024-53863 matrix-synapse: Synapse can be forced to thumbnail unexpected file formats, invoking external, potentially untrustworthy decoders [fedora-40] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2330239

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2024-995720f767' 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: matrix-synapse
Product: Fedora 40
Version: 1.111.1
Release: 3.fc40
URL: https://github.com/element-hq/synapse
Summary: A Matrix reference homeserver written in Python using Twisted

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Topics Covered

security advisory update Fedora memory exhaustion matrix-synapse backport fixes unsupported content types

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