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Fedora 42: Resolution for dpkg Critical Disk Usage Issue (CVE-2025-6297)

Update to 1.22.20. General cleanup. Fix CVE-2025-6297. Major clean up. Enable all tests.. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2025-585ba94c06 2025-07-22 01:10:39.644188+00:00 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : dpkg Product : Fedora 42 Version : 1.22.20 Release : 1.fc42 URL : https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/dpkg Summary : Package maintenance system for Debian Linux Description : This package provides the low-level infrastructure for handling the installation and removal of Debian software packages. This package contains the tools (including dpkg-source) required to unpack, build and upload Debian source packages. This package also contains the programs dpkg which used to handle the installation and removal of packages on a Debian system. This package also contains dselect, an interface for managing the installation and removal of packages on the system. dpkg and dselect will certainly be non-functional on a rpm-based system because packages dependencies will likely be unmet. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: Update to 1.22.20. General cleanup. Fix CVE-2025-6297. Major clean up. Enable all tests. Trim changelog. Adjust Requires and BuildRequires. Update configure options. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Thu Jun 26 2025 Simone Caronni - 1.22.20-1 - Update to 1.22.20 * Thu Jun 26 2025 Simone Caronni - 1.22.15-4 - Enable all tests. - Trim changelog. * Thu Jun 26 2025 Simone Caronni - 1.22.15-3 - Clean up SPEC file. - Adjust Requires and BuildRequires. - Update configure options. - Fix all tests except one. * Mon Mar 31 2025 Tim Landscheidt - 1.22.15-2 - Remove obsolete requirement for %postscriptlet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #2350593 - dpkg-1.22.20 is available https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2350593 [ 2 ] Bug #2375783 - CVE-2025-6297 dpkg: dpkg excessive disk usage [fedora-42] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2375783 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2025-585ba94c06' 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 All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at https://fedoraproject.org/keys -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- _______________________________________________ package-announce mailing list -- This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. To unsubscribe send an email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue . Ubuntu 22.04 upgrade resolves significant storage capacity concerns and improves maintenance routines.. Fedora 42 Dpkg Update, Fix CVE-2025-6297, Linux Security Patching. . Severity: Critical. LinuxSecurity.com Team

Jul 22, 2025 •Critical Fedora