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A sddm security update has been released for Fedora 33.



SECURITY: Fedora 33 Update: sddm-0.19.0-3.fc33


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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2021-7066b95c99
2021-01-24 01:24:57.579723
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Name : sddm
Product : Fedora 33
Version : 0.19.0
Release : 3.fc33
URL :   https://github.com/sddm/sddm
Summary : QML based X11 desktop manager
Description :
SDDM is a modern display manager for X11 aiming to be fast, simple and
beautiful. It uses modern technologies like QtQuick, which in turn gives the
designer the ability to create smooth, animated user interfaces.

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Update Information:

Rebase SDDM to 0.19.0
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ChangeLog:

* Fri Jan 22 2021 Neal Gompa - 0.19.0-3
- Adjust sddm state file trigger for plasma-workspace 5.20.90-2
* Sun Jan 17 2021 Neal Gompa - 0.19.0-2
- Add fix proposed upstream to fix SHELL setting in Wayland sessions
* Tue Nov 10 2020 Neal Gompa - 0.19.0-1
- Rebase to version 0.19.0
- Refresh patch set and drop upstreamed patches
* Sun Oct 18 2020 Neal Gompa - 0.18.1-9
- Add patch to prefer Wayland sessions on F34+
- Correctly handle Plasma session filename changes on upgrade to F34+
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References:

[ 1 ] Bug #1894034 - sddm-0.19.0 is available
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1894034
[ 2 ] Bug #1894658 - CVE-2020-28049 sddm: local privilege escalation due to race condition in creation of the Xauthority file [fedora-all]
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1894658
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2021-7066b95c99' 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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