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Fedora 30: FEDORA-2020-c9eb911737 Critical: pxz Race Condition

- Update to GIT 20200421 - Added patch against race condition in setting permissions on output file (#1182024) - Added patch to revert environment redirect allowing `export XZ_OPT="-9"` or similar. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2020-c9eb911737 2020-05-03 04:40:20.139835 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Name : pxz Product : Fedora 30 Version : 4.999.9 Release : 19.beta.20200421git.fc30 URL : https://jnovy.fedorapeople.org/pxz/ Summary : Parallel LZMA compressor using XZ Description : Parallel XZ is a compression utility that takes advantage of running XZ compression simultaneously on different parts of an input file on multiple cores and processors. This significantly speeds up compression time. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Update Information: - Update to GIT 20200421 - Added patch against race condition in setting permissions on output file (#1182024) - Added patch to revert environment redirect allowing `export XZ_OPT="-9"` or similar --------------------------------------------------------------------------------ChangeLog: * Tue Apr 21 2020 Robert Scheck 4.999.9-19.beta.20200421git - Update to GIT 20200421 - Added patch against race condition in setting permissions on output file (#1182024) - Added patch to revert environment redirect allowing 'export XZ_OPT="-9"' or similar * Thu Jan 30 2020 Fedora Release Engineering - 4.999.9-18.beta.20120930git - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_32_Mass_Rebuild * Fri Jul 26 2019 Fedora Release Engineering - 4.999.9-17.beta.20120930git - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_31_Mass_Rebuild --------------------------------------------------------------------------------References: [ 1 ] Bug #1182024 - CVE-2015-1200 pxz: race condition in setting permissions on output file https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1182024 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2020-c9eb911737' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html 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/security/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------_______________________________________________ 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./ . Debian patch for gzip resolving concurrency issues in generated file attributes with security notice DEBIAN-2021-a1b234567.. Fedora Update, Parallel Compression, XZ Utility, Security Notification. . Severity: Critical. LinuxSecurity.com Team

May 03, 2020 •Critical Fedora