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Fedora 42 niri 25.08 Important DoS Threat Advisory 2025-852b3e077d

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Calendar Grey September 13, 2025
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora updates niri to version 25.08 resolving DoS issues with Wayland support. Essential patch now available.
Update niri to version 25.08 and xwayland-satellite to version 0.7

Summary

A scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor.

Update Information:

Update niri to version 25.08 and xwayland-satellite to version 0.7. Notably, niri now supports xwayland out-of-the-box without manual configuration, and reading keyboard layout from org.freedesktop.locale1. Release notes: https://github.com/niri-wm/niri/releases/tag/v25.08 https://github.com/Supreeeme/xwayland-satellite/releases/tag/v0.7

Change Log

* Thu Sep 4 2025 Fabio Valentini - 25.08-1 - Update to version 25.08; Fixes RHBZ#2392152 * Thu Jul 24 2025 Fedora Release Engineering - 25.05.1-2 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_43_Mass_Rebuild

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2392041 - CVE-2025-58160 niri: Tracing log pollution [fedora-42] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2392041

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2025-852b3e077d' 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: niri
Product: Fedora 42
Version: 25.08
Release: 1.fc42
Summary: Scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor

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