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A borgbackup security update has been released for Fedora 38.



[SECURITY] Fedora 38 Update: borgbackup-1.2.6-1.fc38


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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2023-555f9fac30
2023-09-15 01:41:41.216114
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Name : borgbackup
Product : Fedora 38
Version : 1.2.6
Release : 1.fc38
URL : https://borgbackup.readthedocs.org
Summary : A deduplicating backup program with compression and authenticated encryption
Description :
BorgBackup (short: Borg) is a deduplicating backup program. Optionally, it
supports compression and authenticated encryption.

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Update Information:

fix for CVE-2023-36811: spoofed archive leads to data loss Please note that
starting with borgbackup 1.2.5 all borg repos must use TAM authentication:
https://github.com/borgbackup/borg/blob/1.2.6/docs/changes.rst#pre-125-archives-
spoofing-vulnerability-cve-2023-36811
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ChangeLog:

* Tue Sep 5 2023 Felix Schwarz [fschwarz@fedoraproject.org] - 1.2.6-1
- update to 1.2.6 to fix CVE-2023-36811
- rely on auto-generated version requirement for msgpack
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References:

[ 1 ] Bug #2236305 - CVE-2023-36811 borgbackup: spoofed archive leads to data loss [fedora-all]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2236305
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2023-555f9fac30' 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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