Red Hat Warns Fedora Linux 40/41 and Rawhide Users About Critical Security Flaw

Posted by hanuca on Mar 30, 2024 4:15 PM EDT
9to5linux.com; By Marius Nestor
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Red Hat has issued an urgent security alert today for Fedora Linux 40, Fedora Linux 41, and Fedora Rawhide users about a security flaw (CVE-2024-3094) in the XZ Utils 5.6.0 and 5.6.1 packages that could allow unauthorized remote access via SSH.

It would appear that the upstream tarballs of the XZ Utils 5.6.0 package, which is distributed via GitHub or the project’s official website, included some extra .m4 files that contained instructions for building the software with a version of GNU Automake that did not exist in the repository.

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