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

fedora
Calendar Grey December 19, 2024
Dist Fedora Esm H88
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.

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
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Summary: Algorithms for specialized vertex coloring problems

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