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Fedora 40: 2024-632b468c59 Critical: zlib-rs stack overflow

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Calendar Grey November 29, 2024
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The recent update to Fedora's rust-rustls crate resolves significant stack overflow vulnerabilities linked to zlib-rs. Keep up-to-date on essential security patches.
Update the rustls crate to version 0.23.17

Summary

Rustls is a modern TLS library written in Rust.

Update Information:

Update the rustls crate to version 0.23.17. Update the zlib-rs crate to version 0.4.0. The update to zlib-rs v0.4.0 also addresses CVE-2024-11249 (stack overflow during decompression with malicious input). This issue had no actual impact in Fedora, because no applications yet use the the zlib-rs feature of rustls and rustls is the only dependent package of zlib-rs.

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security advisory security issue software update Fedora stack overflow rustls zlib-rs

Change Log

* Wed Nov 20 2024 Benjamin A. Beasley - 0.23.17-1 - Update to version 0.23.17; Fixes RHBZ#2326682

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2326413 - CVE-2024-11249 rust-zlib-rs: zlib-rs stack overflow during decompression with malicious input [fedora-40] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2326413

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2024-632b468c59' 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: rust-rustls
Product: Fedora 40
Version: 0.23.17
Release: 1.fc40
URL: https://crates.io/crates/rustls
Summary: Modern TLS library written in Rust

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security advisory security issue software update Fedora stack overflow rustls zlib-rs

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