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Fedora 43 yt-dlp Important Command Injection Fix in FEDORA-2026-d86b88630b

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Calendar Grey February 25, 2026
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Security advisory for yt-dlp in Fedora 43 mitigates critical command injection risk. Update recommended to secure systems.
Update to 2026.02.21

Summary

yt-dlp is a command-line program to download videos from many different online

video platforms, such as youtube.com. The project is a fork of youtube-dl with

additional features and fixes.

Update Information:

Update to 2026.02.21. Fixes rhbz#2441709. Mitigates CVE-2026-26331 / GHSA-g3gw-q23r-pgqm (rhbz#2442244)

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security advisory fedora critical software update command injection yt-dlp

Change Log

* Tue Feb 24 2026 Maxwell G - 2026.02.21-1 - Update to 2026.02.21. Fixes rhbz#2441709. - Mitigates CVE-2026-26331 / GHSA-g3gw-q23r-pgqm (rhbz#2442244) * Sat Feb 21 2026 Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski - 2026.02.04-2 - fix FTBFS with python 3.14.3

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2441709 - yt-dlp-2026.02.21 is available https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2441709 [ 2 ] Bug #2442244 - CVE-2026-26331 yt-dlp: yt-dlp: Arbitrary command injection via maliciously crafted URL when --netrc-cmd is used [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2442244

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2026-d86b88630b' 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: yt-dlp
Product: Fedora 43
Version: 2026.02.21
Release: 1.fc43
URL: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp
Summary: A command-line program to download videos from online video platforms

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security advisory fedora critical software update command injection yt-dlp

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