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A logrotate security update has been released for Fedora 36.



SECURITY: Fedora 36 Update: logrotate-3.20.1-1.fc36


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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2022-87c0f05204
2022-05-28 01:13:38.361007
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Name : logrotate
Product : Fedora 36
Version : 3.20.1
Release : 1.fc36
URL :   https://github.com/logrotate/logrotate
Summary : Rotates, compresses, removes and mails system log files
Description :
The logrotate utility is designed to simplify the administration of
log files on a system which generates a lot of log files. Logrotate
allows for the automatic rotation compression, removal and mailing of
log files. Logrotate can be set to handle a log file daily, weekly,
monthly or when the log file gets to a certain size.

Install the logrotate package if you need a utility to deal with the
log files on your system.

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Update Information:

- fix potential DoS from unprivileged users via the state file (CVE-2022-1348)
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ChangeLog:

* Wed May 25 2022 Kamil Dudka - 3.20.1-1
- new upstream version 3.20.1, which fixes the following security issue:
CVE-2022-1348 - potential DoS from unprivileged users via the state file
* Tue Mar 15 2022 Kamil Dudka - 3.19.0-3
- verify GPG signature of upstream tarball when building the package
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References:

[ 1 ] Bug #2090272 - CVE-2022-1348 logrotate: potential DoS from unprivileged users via the state file [fedora-all]
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2090272
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2022-87c0f05204' 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 found at
  https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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