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A pesign security update has been released for Fedora 36.



SECURITY: Fedora 36 Update: pesign-115-4.fc36


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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2023-5399953e3b
2023-02-09 09:21:13.102628
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Name : pesign
Product : Fedora 36
Version : 115
Release : 4.fc36
URL :   https://github.com/rhboot/pesign
Summary : Signing utility for UEFI binaries
Description :
This package contains the pesign utility for signing UEFI binaries as
well as other associated tools.

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Update Information:

- Fix CVE-2022-3560 - This is a privilege escalation in the pesign-authorize
script, which is now deprecated. There is no impact unless you are using pesign
as a daemon in a signing server.
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ChangeLog:

* Tue Jan 31 2023 Robbie Harwood - 115-4
- Port pesign-authorize to normal file permissions
- Resolves: CVE-2022-3560
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References:

[ 1 ] Bug #2165983 - CVE-2022-3560 pesign: Local privilege escalation on pesign systemd service [fedora-all]
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2165983
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2023-5399953e3b' 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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