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A yt-dlp security update has been released for Fedora Linux 40:

Fedora 40 Update: yt-dlp-2024.07.02-1.fc40




Fedora 40 Update: yt-dlp-2024.07.02-1.fc40


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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2024-0ba1c1a435
2024-07-07 03:20:04.528739
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Name : yt-dlp
Product : Fedora 40
Version : 2024.07.02
Release : 1.fc40
URL : https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp
Summary : A command-line program to download videos from online video platforms
Description :
yt-dlp is a command-line program to download videos from many different online
video platforms, such as youtube.com. The project is a fork of youtube-dl with
additional features and fixes.

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Update Information:

Update to 2024.07.02
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ChangeLog:

* Thu Jul 4 2024 Mikel Olasagasti Uranga [mikel@olasagasti.info] - 2024.07.02-1
- Update to 2024.07.02. Fixes rhbz#2295769
* Fri Jun 7 2024 Python Maint - 2024.05.27-2
- Rebuilt for Python 3.13
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References:

[ 1 ] Bug #2295956 - CVE-2024-38519 yt-dlp: File system modification and RCE through improper file-extension sanitization [fedora-all]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2295956
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2024-0ba1c1a435' 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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