ALSA-2024:1719

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    ALSA-2024:1719

    Published: 9 Apr 2024Last Modified: 4 Feb 2026

    Summary: Moderate: rear security update

    Details: Relax-and-Recover is a recovery and system migration utility. The utility produces a bootable image and restores from backup using this image. It allows to restore to different hardware and can therefore be also used as a migration utility. Security Fix(es): * rear: creates a world-readable initrd (CVE-2024-23301) 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-2024:1719, https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-23301, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2258396, https://errata.almalinux.org/8/ALSA-2024-1719.html

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: rear

    Purl: pkg:rpm/almalinux/rear

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -2.6-11.el8_9.alma.1

    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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