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Fedora 41 ColPack Release: Important CVE-2024-55566 Critical Update

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Calendar Grey December 19, 2024
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Significant patch for Fedora's ColPack resolves an anticipated file concern arising from uninitialized RNG implementation.
Fix for CVE-2024-55566.

Summary

ColPack is a package comprising of implementation of algorithms for

specialized vertex coloring problems that arise in sparse derivative

computation. It is written in an object-oriented fashion heavily using

the Standard Template Library (STL). It is designed to be simple,

modular, extendable and efficient.

Update Information:

Fix for CVE-2024-55566.

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Topics Covered

security advisory update software update Fedora security fix ColPack predictable file issue

Change Log

* Mon Dec 9 2024 Björn Esser - 1.0.10-25 - Fix CVE-2024-55566 Fixes: rhbz#2331064

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2331064 - CVE-2024-55566 colpack: predictable /tmp file due to unseeded RNG usage in displayGraph() https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2331064

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2024-d6b79ab292' 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: ColPack
Product: Fedora 41
Version: 1.0.10
Release: 25.fc41
URL:
Summary: Algorithms for specialized vertex coloring problems

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Topics Covered

security advisory update software update Fedora security fix ColPack predictable file issue

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