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Fedora 41 ABRT Critical Command Injection Vulnerability Fix CVE-2025-12744

fedora
Calendar Grey December 9, 2025
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fix for critical command injection in Fedora 41's abrt tool addressing local privilege escalation vulnerability.
Fix CVE-2025-12744

Summary

abrt is a tool to help users to detect defects in applications and

to create a bug report with all information needed by maintainer to fix it.

It uses plugin system to extend its functionality.

Update Information:

Fix CVE-2025-12744

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory fedora critical local privilege escalation command injection abrt

Change Log

* Thu Dec 4 2025 Michal Srb - 2.17.8-1 - a-a-save-container-data: validate input - Resolves: CVE-2025-12744

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2418567 - CVE-2025-12744 abrt: Command-injection in ABRT leading to local privilege escalation [fedora-41] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2418567

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2025-ed228a4b71' 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: abrt
Product: Fedora 41
Version: 2.17.8
Release: 1.fc41
URL: https://abrt.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
Summary: Automatic bug detection and reporting tool

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory fedora critical local privilege escalation command injection abrt

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