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Fedora 41: FEDORA-2024-41e6e2fc74 moderate: zlib-rs stack overflow

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Calendar Grey November 29, 2024
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Notice issued for Fedora 41 concerning rust-zlib-rs modifications aimed at reducing the potential for stack overflow vulnerabilities triggered by harmful inputs.
Update the rustls crate to version 0.23.17

Summary

A memory-safe zlib implementation written in rust.

Update Information:

Update the rustls crate to version 0.23.17. Update the zlib-rs crate to version 0.4.0. The update to zlib-rs v0.4.0 also addresses CVE-2024-11249 (stack overflow during decompression with malicious input). This issue had no actual impact in Fedora, because no applications yet use the the zlib-rs feature of rustls and rustls is the only dependent package of zlib-rs.

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Topics Covered

security advisory update Fedora stack overflow rustls zlib-rs memory-safe

Change Log

* Wed Nov 20 2024 Benjamin A. Beasley - 0.4.0-1 - Update to version 0.4.0

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2326414 - CVE-2024-11249 rust-zlib-rs: zlib-rs stack overflow during decompression with malicious input [fedora-41] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2326414

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2024-41e6e2fc74' 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

Name: rust-zlib-rs
Product: Fedora 41
Version: 0.4.0
Release: 1.fc41
URL: https://crates.io/crates/zlib-rs
Summary: Memory-safe zlib implementation written in rust

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Topics Covered

security advisory update Fedora stack overflow rustls zlib-rs memory-safe

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