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Fedora 41: FEDORA-2024-4cadba7a29 critical: matrix-synapse memory leak

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Security notice for Fedora 41 enhancements of matrix-synapse tackling various concerns, encompassing memory vulnerabilities.
CVE-2024-52805, CVE-2024-52815, CVE-2024-53863, CVE-2024-53867 Backport fixes from v1.120.1

Summary

Matrix is an ambitious new ecosystem for open federated Instant Messaging and

VoIP. Synapse is a reference "homeserver" implementation of Matrix from the

core development team at matrix.org, written in Python/Twisted. It is intended

to showcase the concept of Matrix and let folks see the spec in the context of

a coded base and let you run your own homeserver and generally help bootstrap

the ecosystem.

Update Information:

CVE-2024-52805, CVE-2024-52815, CVE-2024-53863, CVE-2024-53867 Backport fixes from v1.120.1

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security advisory update Fedora fix memory exhaustion matrix-synapse synapse leak

Change Log

* Tue Dec 3 2024 Kai A. Hiller - 1.118.0-3 - CVE-2024-52805, CVE-2024-52815, CVE-2024-53863, CVE-2024-53867 * Tue Dec 3 2024 Kai A. Hiller - 1.118.0-2 - Backport fixes from v1.120.1

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2330235 - CVE-2024-52805 matrix-synapse: Synapse allows unsupported content types to lead to memory exhaustion [fedora-41] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2330235 [ 2 ] Bug #2330236 - CVE-2024-53867 matrix-synapse: Synapse Matrix has a partial room state leak via Sliding Sync [fedora-41] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2330236 [ 3 ] Bug #2330238 - CVE-2024-52815 matrix-synapse: A malformed invite can break the invitee's `/sync` [fedora-41] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2330238 [ 4 ] Bug #2330240 - CVE-2024-53863 matrix-synapse: Synapse can be forced to thumbnail unexpected file formats, invoking external, potentially untrustworthy decoders [fedora-41] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2330240

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2024-4cadba7a29' 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: matrix-synapse
Product: Fedora 41
Version: 1.118.0
Release: 3.fc41
URL: https://github.com/element-hq/synapse
Summary: A Matrix reference homeserver written in Python using Twisted

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Topics Covered

security advisory update Fedora fix memory exhaustion matrix-synapse synapse leak

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