ALSA-2024:0647

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    ALSA-2024:0647

    Published: 1 Feb 2024Last Modified: 4 Feb 2026

    Summary: Moderate: rpm security update

    Details: The RPM Package Manager (RPM) is a command-line driven package management system capable of installing, uninstalling, verifying, querying, and updating software packages. Security Fix(es): * rpm: TOCTOU race in checks for unsafe symlinks (CVE-2021-35937) * rpm: races with chown/chmod/capabilities calls during installation (CVE-2021-35938) * rpm: checks for unsafe symlinks are not performed for intermediary directories (CVE-2021-35939) For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

    References: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:0647, https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-35937, https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-35938, https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-35939, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1964114, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1964125, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1964129, https://errata.almalinux.org/8/ALSA-2024-0647.html

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: python3-rpm

    Purl: pkg:rpm/almalinux/python3-rpm

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -4.14.3-28.el8_9

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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