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Fedora 42: FEDORA-2025-8a18a5a077 important: awatcher security updates

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Calendar Grey June 25, 2025
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The latest awatcher update targets critical security improvements, focusing on idna and double-free issues. Ensure you take action quickly!
Rebuild applications to apply two recent security updates: build with idna 1.0.0+ to address CVE-2024-12224 (idna accepts Punycode labels that do not produce any non-ASCII when dec...

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Update Information:

Rebuild applications to apply two recent security updates: build with idna 1.0.0+ to address CVE-2024-12224 (idna accepts Punycode labels that do not produce any non-ASCII when decoded) build with crossbeam-channel 0.5.15+ to address CVE-2025-4574 (potential double- free on Drop)

Change Log

* Mon Jun 16 2025 Fabio Valentini - 0.3.1-2 - Rebuild for idna crate >= v1.0.0 (CVE-2024-12224)

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2366549 - CVE-2025-4574 atuin: crossbeam-channel Vulnerable to Double Free on Drop [fedora-42] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2366549 [ 2 ] Bug #2366551 - CVE-2025-4574 awatcher: crossbeam-channel Vulnerable to Double Free on Drop [fedora-42] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2366551 [ 3 ] Bug #2370578 - CVE-2024-12224 atuin: idna accepts Punycode labels that do not produce any non-ASCII when decoded [fedora-42] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2370578 [ 4 ] Bug #2370580 - CVE-2024-12224 awatcher: idna accepts Punycode labels that do not produce any non-ASCII when decoded [fedora-42] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2370580 [ 5 ] Bug #2370586 - CVE-2024-12224 gotify-desktop: idna accepts Punycode labels that do not produce any non-ASCII when decoded [fedora-42] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2370586 [ 6 ] Bug #2370591 - CVE-2024-12224 mirrorlist-server: ...

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Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2025-8a18a5a077' 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: awatcher
Product: Fedora 42
Version: 0.3.1
Release: 2.fc42
Summary: A window activity and idle watcher

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