[SECURITY] Fedora 34 Update: squashfs-tools-4.5-2.fc34
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2021-cdbd827c1e
2021-08-30 20:41:05.623010
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Name : squashfs-tools
Product : Fedora 34
Version : 4.5
Release : 2.fc34
URL : https://github.com/plougher/squashfs-tools/archive/4.5.tar.gz
Summary : Utility for the creation of squashfs filesystems
Description :
Squashfs is a highly compressed read-only filesystem for Linux. This package
contains the utilities for manipulating squashfs filesystems.
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Update Information:
4.5 release (includes security fix for CVE-2021-40153)
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ChangeLog:
* Mon Jul 26 2021 Bruno Wolff III <bruno(a)wolff.to> - 4.5-2
- Fix for sparse fragment bug 1985561
* Fri Jul 23 2021 Bruno Wolff III <bruno(a)wolff.to> - 4.5-1
- First crack at 4.5 release
- Man pages still need significant work
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #1998621 - CVE-2021-40153 squashfs-tools: unvalidated filepaths allow writing
outside of destination
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1998621
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2021-cdbd827c1e' 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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