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Fedora 44 7zip Important Bug Fix Advisory 2026-948b74882b

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Calendar Grey July 2, 2026
Dist Fedora Esm H88
7-Zip update for Fedora 44 addresses bugs and critical issues improving performance and security. Check details.
7-zip 26.02 Some bugs and vulnerabilities were fixed.

Summary

7-Zip is a file archiver with a high compression ratio. The main features

of 7-Zip are:

* High compression ratio in 7z format with LZMA and LZMA2 compression

* Supported formats:

* Packing / unpacking: 7z, XZ, BZIP2, GZIP, TAR, ZIP and WIM

* Unpacking only: AR, ARJ, CAB, CHM, CPIO, CramFS, DMG, EXT, FAT,

GPT, HFS, IHEX, ISO, LZH, LZMA, MBR, MSI, NSIS, NTFS, QCOW2,

RPM, SquashFS, UDF, UEFI, VDI, VHD, VMDK, WIM, XAR and Z.

* For ZIP and GZIP formats, 7-Zip provides a compression ratio that is

2-10 % better than the ratio provided by PKZip and WinZip

* Strong AES-256 encryption in 7z and ZIP formats

* Powerful command line version

Update Information:

7-zip 26.02 Some bugs and vulnerabilities were fixed.

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Topics Covered

security advisory fedora bug fix important 7zip file archiver

Change Log

* Wed Jul 1 2026 Michel Lind - 26.02-1 - Update to version 26.02; Resolves: rhbz#2493347 * Wed Jul 1 2026 Michel Lind - 26.01-2 - Load 7z.so from a fixed libexec path instead of deriving it from argv[0] - Resolves: rhbz#2491337

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2491337 - 7-zip under the root account cannot extract RAR archives https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2491337 [ 2 ] Bug #2493347 - 7zip-26.02 is available https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2493347

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2026-948b74882b' 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: 7zip
Product: Fedora 44
Version: 26.02
Release: 1.fc44
URL: https://7-zip.org
Summary: A file archiver

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Topics Covered

security advisory fedora bug fix important 7zip file archiver

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