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An oddjob security update has been released for Fedora 32.



SECURITY: Fedora 32 Update: oddjob-0.34.6-1.fc32


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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2020-238bbf85d8
2020-05-14 02:35:07.838586
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Name : oddjob
Product : Fedora 32
Version : 0.34.6
Release : 1.fc32
URL :   https://pagure.io/oddjob
Summary : A D-Bus service which runs odd jobs on behalf of client applications
Description :
oddjob is a D-Bus service which performs particular tasks for clients which
connect to it and issue requests using the system-wide message bus.

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Update Information:

This update includes a security fix for CVE-2020-10737. Additionally, From
0.34.6: - update license on src/buffer.h - changes "/var/run" to "/run" in
systemd service file (Orion Poplawski, #1834511) From 0.34.5: - apply patch
from Matthias Gerstner of the SUSE security team to fix a possible race
condition in the mkhomedir helper (noted above, this fixes CVE-2020-10737) -
only process SELinux contexts if SELinux is not disabled (Alexander Bokovoy,
#1828855)
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ChangeLog:

* Thu May 7 2020 Nalin Dahyabhai - 0.34.6-1
- update license on src/buffer.h
- change /var/run -> /run in systemd service file (Orion Poplawski)
* Thu May 7 2020 Nalin Dahyabhai - 0.34.5-1
- apply patch from Matthias Gerstner of the SUSE security team to fix a
possible race condition in the mkhomedir helper (CVE-2020-10737)
- only process SELinux contexts if SELinux is not disabled (Alexander Bokovoy)
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References:

[ 1 ] Bug #1833042 - CVE-2020-10737 oddjob: race condition in oddjob_selinux_mkdir function in mkhomedir.c can lead to symlink attack
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1833042
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2020-238bbf85d8' 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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