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Fedora 40: FEDORA-2024-dd633679a9 moderate: ColPack RNG issue

Fix for CVE-2024-55566.. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2024-dd633679a9 2024-12-19 03:59:44.538975+00:00 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : ColPack Product : Fedora 40 Version : 1.0.10 Release : 25.fc40 URL : Summary : Algorithms for specialized vertex coloring problems Description : ColPack is a package comprising of implementation of algorithms for specialized vertex coloring problems that arise in sparse derivative computation. It is written in an object-oriented fashion heavily using the Standard Template Library (STL). It is designed to be simple, modular, extendable and efficient. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: Fix for CVE-2024-55566. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Mon Dec 9 2024 Björn Esser - 1.0.10-25 - Fix CVE-2024-55566 Fixes: rhbz#2331064 * Wed Jul 17 2024 Fedora Release Engineering - 1.0.10-24 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_41_Mass_Rebuild * Wed Jul 17 2024 Miroslav Suchý - 1.0.10-23 - convert license to SPDX -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #2331064 - CVE-2024-55566 colpack: predictable /tmp file due to unseeded RNG usage in displayGraph() https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2331064 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2024-dd633679a9' 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 foundat https://fedoraproject.org/keys -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- . Investigate methods to mitigate the recurring /tmp file complications in ColPack attributed to the RNG glitch in Fedora 40.. ColPack update,Fedora security advisory,RNG issue,Fedora 40. . LinuxSecurity.com Team

Dec 19, 2024 Fedora