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Fedora 41 fscrypt Security Advisory FEDORA-2025-fc7c0ca5c5: Fix FTBFS

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Calendar Grey March 5, 2025
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Enhancements to fscrypt in Fedora 41 resolve FTBFS concerns and test failures, aiming to boost reliability and safety.
Update to 0.3.5 to fix FTBFS and test failures

Summary

fscrypt is a high-level tool for the management of Linux filesystem encryption.

This tool manages metadata, key generation, key wrapping, PAM integration, and

provides a uniform interface for creating and modifying encrypted directories.

Update Information:

Update to 0.3.5 to fix FTBFS and test failures

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Change Log

* Mon Feb 24 2025 Neal Gompa - 0.3.5-2 - Backport fix for tests on non-x86 arches * Fri Feb 14 2025 Neal Gompa - 0.3.5-1 - Update to 0.3.5 - Add patch to fix building tests with Go 1.24 * Thu Jan 16 2025 Fedora Release Engineering - 0.3.4-7 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_42_Mass_Rebuild

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2325331 - fscrypt being built with vulnerable golang version 1.23rc1 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2325331 [ 2 ] Bug #2334787 - fscrypt 0.3.5 available https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2334787 [ 3 ] Bug #2340182 - fscrypt: FTBFS in Fedora rawhide/f42 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2340182

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2025-fc7c0ca5c5' 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: fscrypt
Product: Fedora 41
Version: 0.3.5
Release: 2.fc41
URL: https://github.com/google/fscrypt
Summary: Go tool for managing Linux filesystem encryption

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security advisory update Fedora encryption tool fscrypt test failures metadata management

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