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Fedora 43: luksmeta Critical Data Corruption Fix CVE-2025-11568

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Calendar Grey November 8, 2025
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Fix for data corruption in LUKS1 partitions addressing CVE-2025-11568 for Fedora 43's luksmeta utility.
Fix handling of large metadata Fix: CVE-2025-11568

Summary

LUKSMeta is a command line utility for storing small portions of metadata in

the LUKSv1 header for use before unlocking the volume.

Update Information:

Fix handling of large metadata Fix: CVE-2025-11568

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Change Log

* Fri Oct 31 2025 Sergio Correia - 10-1 - New upstream release v10

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2404247 - CVE-2025-11568 luksmeta: Data corruption when handling LUKS1 partitions with luksmeta [fedora-42] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2404247

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2025-e53e8fdc0a' 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: luksmeta
Product: Fedora 43
Version: 10
Release: 1.fc43
URL: https://github.com/latchset/luksmeta
Summary: Utility for storing small metadata in the LUKSv1 header

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