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Fedora 42: fvwm3 Critical CVE-2025-47906 Window Manager Update

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Calendar Grey November 18, 2025
Dist Fedora Esm H88
This advisory details CVE-2025-47906 associated with FVWM3 on Fedora 42, addressing path vulnerabilities.
FVWM3 ver

Summary

Fvwm is a window manager for X11. It is designed to minimize memory

consumption, provide a 3D look to window frames, and implement a virtual

desktop.

Update Information:

FVWM3 ver. 1.1.4

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Change Log

* Sun Nov 9 2025 Peter Lemenkov - 1.1.4-1 - FVWM3 ver. 1.1.4 * Fri Oct 10 2025 Maxwell G - 1.1.3-6 - Rebuild for golang 1.25.2 * Fri Aug 15 2025 Maxwell G - 1.1.3-5 - Rebuild for golang-1.25.0 * Fri Aug 15 2025 Maxwell G - 1.1.3-4 - Revert "Rebuild for golang-1.25.0" * Fri Aug 15 2025 Maxwell G - 1.1.3-3 - Rebuild for golang-1.25.0 * Wed Jul 23 2025 Fedora Release Engineering - 1.1.3-2 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_43_Mass_Rebuild

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2399091 - CVE-2025-47906 fvwm3: Unexpected paths returned from LookPath in os/exec [fedora-41] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2399091 [ 2 ] Bug #2399366 - CVE-2025-47906 fvwm3: Unexpected paths returned from LookPath in os/exec [fedora-42] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2399366 [ 3 ] Bug #2413611 - fvwm3-1.1.4 is available https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2413611

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2025-f7d7958683' 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: fvwm3
Product: Fedora 42
Version: 1.1.4
Release: 1.fc42
URL: https://www.fvwm.org/
Summary: Highly configurable multiple virtual desktop window manager

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