November 2024 - Announce - AlmaLinux List Archives

AlmaLinux 9.5 released!
by benny Vasquez 18 Nov '24

18 Nov '24

AlmaLinux 9.5 Stable Now Available The AlmaLinux OS Foundation is announcing the general availability of AlmaLinux OS 9.5 <https://mirrors.almalinux.org/isos.html> codenamed “Teal Serval”! Installation ISOs are available on the mirrors now for all 4 architectures: - Intel/AMD (x86_64) <https://mirrors.almalinux.org/isos/x86_64/9.5.html> - ARM64 (aarch64) <https://mirrors.almalinux.org/isos/aarch64/9.5.html> - IBM PowerPC (ppc64le) <https://mirrors.almalinux.org/isos/ppc64le/9.5.html> - IBM Z (s390x) <https://mirrors.almalinux.org/isos/s390x/9.5.html> Torrents are available as well at: - Intel/AMD (x86_64) <https://repo.almalinux.org/almalinux/9.5/isos/x86_64/AlmaLinux-9.5-x86_64.t…> - ARM64 (aarch64) <https://repo.almalinux.org/almalinux/9.5/isos/aarch64/AlmaLinux-9.5-aarch64…> - IBM PowerPC (ppc64le) <https://repo.almalinux.org/almalinux/9.5/isos/ppc64le/AlmaLinux-9.5-ppc64le…> - IBM Z (s390x) <https://repo.almalinux.org/almalinux/9.5/isos/s390x/AlmaLinux-9.5-s390x.tor…> ISOs, Live Images, Cloud and Containers AlmaLinux also offers a variety of Cloud, Container and Live Images. The builds for these get kicked off as soon as the public repository is ready. *The following images are expected to be available shortly.* - Container <https://wiki.almalinux.org/containers/> images including Platform and UBIs alternatives. We provide a wide variety of containers for your use. - LXC/LXD <https://images.linuxcontainers.org/images/almalinux/> - Live Media <https://wiki.almalinux.org/LiveMedia.html> for GNOME, GNOME-mini, KDE, XFCE, MATE and more. - Cloud Images - AWS <https://wiki.almalinux.org/cloud/AWS.html> for x86_64 and AArch64 EC2 Instances - Azure <https://wiki.almalinux.org/cloud/Azure.html> for x86_64 and AArch64 VMs - Google Cloud <https://wiki.almalinux.org/cloud/Google.html> - Generic Cloud/Cloud-init <https://wiki.almalinux.org/cloud/Generic-cloud-on-local.html> for all 4 architectures - OpenNebula <https://wiki.almalinux.org/cloud/OpenNebula.html> for x86_64 and AArch64 architectures - Oracle Cloud Infrastructure <https://wiki.almalinux.org/cloud/OCI.html> for x86_64 and AArch64 Instances - Vagrant Boxes <https://app.vagrantup.com/almalinux>: - Libvirt - VirtualBox - Hyper-V - VMWare for x86_64 and AArch64 - Parallels for AArch64 - Raspberry Pi <https://wiki.almalinux.org/documentation/raspberry-pi.html> - Windows Subsystem for Linux <https://wiki.almalinux.org/documentation/wsl.html> for x86_64 and AArch64 Release Notes and More Information AlmaLinux 9.5 aims to improve performance, development tooling, and security. Updated module streams offer better support for web applications. New versions of compilers provide access to the latest features and optimizations that improve performance and enable better code generation. The release also introduces improvements to system performance monitoring, visualization, and system performance data collecting. Security updates are directed at strengthening cryptography, while SELinux policies enforce stricter access controls. Additionally, crypto-policies offer stronger encryption, improving the overall security of the system. You can read the full release notes for this version on the wiki: AlmaLinux OS 9.5 Release Notes <https://wiki.almalinux.org/release-notes/9.5.html>. What you can do to help? Your input into testing and feedback is crucial and essential for successful production releases. Please, report any bugs you may see on the Bug Tracker <https://bugs.almalinux.org/>. Also, pop into the AlmaLinux Community Chat <https://chat.almalinux.org/> and join our Testing Channel, post a question on our 9.5 Forum <https://forums.almalinux.org/c/devel/9/36>, on our AlmaLinux Community on Reddit <https://reddit.com/r/almalinux> or catch us on X <https://twitter.com/almalinux>. Please report any bugs you may see on the Bug Tracker <https://bugs.almalinux.org/>. *Enjoy the release and have fun!* benny Vasquez Chair, Board of Directors @AlmaLinux OS Foundation *I am sending this message now because it suits me, but I don’t expect that you will read, respond to, or act on it outside of comfortable hours for your time zone.*

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[Security Advisory] ALSA-2024:9644: squid:4 security update (Important)
by AlmaLinux Errata Notifications 15 Nov '24

15 Nov '24

Hi, You are receiving an AlmaLinux Security update email because you subscribed to receive errata notifications from AlmaLinux. AlmaLinux: 8 Type: Security Severity: Important Release date: 2024-11-15 Summary: Squid is a high-performance proxy caching server for web clients, supporting FTP, Gopher, and HTTP data objects. Security Fix(es): * squid: vulnerable to a Denial of Service attack against Cache Manager error responses (CVE-2024-23638) * squid: Denial of Service processing ESI response content (CVE-2024-45802) 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. Full details, updated packages, references, and other related information: https://errata.almalinux.org/8/ALSA-2024-9644.html This message is automatically generated, please don’t reply. For further questions, please, contact us via the AlmaLinux community chat: https://chat.almalinux.org/. Want to change your notification settings? Sign in and manage mailing lists on https://lists.almalinux.org. Kind regards, AlmaLinux Team

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[Security Advisory] ALSA-2024:9540: tigervnc security update (Important)
by AlmaLinux Errata Notifications 15 Nov '24

15 Nov '24

Hi, You are receiving an AlmaLinux Security update email because you subscribed to receive errata notifications from AlmaLinux. AlmaLinux: 8 Type: Security Severity: Important Release date: 2024-11-15 Summary: Virtual Network Computing (VNC) is a remote display system which allows users to view a computing desktop environment not only on the machine where it is running, but from anywhere on the Internet and from a wide variety of machine architectures. TigerVNC is a suite of VNC servers and clients. Security Fix(es): * xorg-x11-server: tigervnc: heap-based buffer overflow privilege escalation vulnerability (CVE-2024-9632) 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. Full details, updated packages, references, and other related information: https://errata.almalinux.org/8/ALSA-2024-9540.html This message is automatically generated, please don’t reply. For further questions, please, contact us via the AlmaLinux community chat: https://chat.almalinux.org/. Want to change your notification settings? Sign in and manage mailing lists on https://lists.almalinux.org. Kind regards, AlmaLinux Team

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[Security Advisory] ALSA-2024:9636: webkit2gtk3 security update (Important)
by AlmaLinux Errata Notifications 15 Nov '24

15 Nov '24

Hi, You are receiving an AlmaLinux Security update email because you subscribed to receive errata notifications from AlmaLinux. AlmaLinux: 8 Type: Security Severity: Important Release date: 2024-11-15 Summary: WebKitGTK is the port of the portable web rendering engine WebKit to the GTK platform. Security Fix(es): * chromium-browser: Use after free in ANGLE (CVE-2024-4558) * webkitgtk: webkit2gtk: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to an unexpected process crash (CVE-2024-40789) * webkitgtk: webkit2gtk: Out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved bounds checking (CVE-2024-40780) * webkitgtk: webkit2gtk: Out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved bounds checking (CVE-2024-40779) * webkitgtk: webkit2gtk: Use-after-free was addressed with improved memory management (CVE-2024-40782) * webkitgtk: Visiting a malicious website may lead to address bar spoofing (CVE-2024-40866) * webkitgtk: A malicious website may cause unexpected cross-origin behavior (CVE-2024-23271) * webkitgtk: Processing web content may lead to arbitrary code execution (CVE-2024-27820) * webkitgtk: A maliciously crafted webpage may be able to fingerprint the user (CVE-2024-27838) * webkitgtk: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution (CVE-2024-27851) * webkitgtk: A malicious website may exfiltrate data cross-origin (CVE-2024-44187) * webkitgtk: webkit2gtk: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to an unexpected process crash (CVE-2024-44185) * webkitgtk: webkit2gtk: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to an unexpected process crash (CVE-2024-44244) * webkitgtk: webkit2gtk: Processing maliciously crafted web content may prevent Content Security Policy from being enforced (CVE-2024-44296) 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. Full details, updated packages, references, and other related information: https://errata.almalinux.org/8/ALSA-2024-9636.html This message is automatically generated, please don’t reply. For further questions, please, contact us via the AlmaLinux community chat: https://chat.almalinux.org/. Want to change your notification settings? Sign in and manage mailing lists on https://lists.almalinux.org. Kind regards, AlmaLinux Team

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[Security Advisory] ALSA-2024:9689: binutils security update (Low)
by AlmaLinux Errata Notifications 15 Nov '24

15 Nov '24

Hi, You are receiving an AlmaLinux Security update email because you subscribed to receive errata notifications from AlmaLinux. AlmaLinux: 8 Type: Security Severity: Low Release date: 2024-11-15 Summary: The binutils packages provide a collection of binary utilities for the manipulation of object code in various object file formats. It includes the ar, as, gprof, ld, nm, objcopy, objdump, ranlib, readelf, size, strings, strip, and addr2line utilities. Security Fix(es): * binutils: heap-based buffer overflow in finish_stab in stabs.c (CVE-2018-12699) 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. Full details, updated packages, references, and other related information: https://errata.almalinux.org/8/ALSA-2024-9689.html This message is automatically generated, please don’t reply. For further questions, please, contact us via the AlmaLinux community chat: https://chat.almalinux.org/. Want to change your notification settings? Sign in and manage mailing lists on https://lists.almalinux.org. Kind regards, AlmaLinux Team

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[Security Advisory] ALSA-2024:9573: libsoup security update (Important)
by AlmaLinux Errata Notifications 15 Nov '24

15 Nov '24

Hi, You are receiving an AlmaLinux Security update email because you subscribed to receive errata notifications from AlmaLinux. AlmaLinux: 8 Type: Security Severity: Important Release date: 2024-11-14 Summary: The libsoup packages provide an HTTP client and server library for GNOME. Security Fix(es): * libsoup: infinite loop while reading websocket data (CVE-2024-52532) * libsoup: HTTP request smuggling via stripping null bytes from the ends of header names (CVE-2024-52530) 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. Full details, updated packages, references, and other related information: https://errata.almalinux.org/8/ALSA-2024-9573.html This message is automatically generated, please don’t reply. For further questions, please, contact us via the AlmaLinux community chat: https://chat.almalinux.org/. Want to change your notification settings? Sign in and manage mailing lists on https://lists.almalinux.org. Kind regards, AlmaLinux Team

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[Security Advisory] ALSA-2024:9502: expat security update (Moderate)
by AlmaLinux Errata Notifications 13 Nov '24

13 Nov '24

Hi, You are receiving an AlmaLinux Security update email because you subscribed to receive errata notifications from AlmaLinux. AlmaLinux: 8 Type: Security Severity: Moderate Release date: 2024-11-13 Summary: Expat is a C library for parsing XML documents. Security Fix(es): * libexpat: expat: DoS via XML_ResumeParser (CVE-2024-50602) 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. Full details, updated packages, references, and other related information: https://errata.almalinux.org/8/ALSA-2024-9502.html This message is automatically generated, please don’t reply. For further questions, please, contact us via the AlmaLinux community chat: https://chat.almalinux.org/. Want to change your notification settings? Sign in and manage mailing lists on https://lists.almalinux.org. Kind regards, AlmaLinux Team

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[Security Advisory] ALSA-2024:9056: gstreamer1-plugins-base security update (Moderate)
by AlmaLinux Errata Notifications 12 Nov '24

12 Nov '24

Hi, You are receiving an AlmaLinux Security update email because you subscribed to receive errata notifications from AlmaLinux. AlmaLinux: 8 Type: Security Severity: Moderate Release date: 2024-11-12 Summary: GStreamer is a streaming media framework based on graphs of filters which operate on media data. The gstreamer1-plugins-base packages contain a collection of well-maintained base plug-ins. Security Fix(es): * gstreamer: EXIF Metadata Parsing Integer Overflow (CVE-2024-4453) 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. Full details, updated packages, references, and other related information: https://errata.almalinux.org/8/ALSA-2024-9056.html This message is automatically generated, please don’t reply. For further questions, please, contact us via the AlmaLinux community chat: https://chat.almalinux.org/. Want to change your notification settings? Sign in and manage mailing lists on https://lists.almalinux.org. Kind regards, AlmaLinux Team

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[Security Advisory] ALSA-2024:9051: podman security update (Important)
by AlmaLinux Errata Notifications 11 Nov '24

11 Nov '24

Hi, You are receiving an AlmaLinux Security update email because you subscribed to receive errata notifications from AlmaLinux. AlmaLinux: 9 Type: Security Severity: Important Release date: 2024-11-11 Summary: The podman tool manages pods, container images, and containers. It is part of the libpod library, which is for applications that use container pods. Container pods is a concept in Kubernetes. Security Fix(es): * Buildah: Podman: Improper Input Validation in bind-propagation Option of Dockerfile RUN --mount Instruction (CVE-2024-9407) * buildah: Buildah allows arbitrary directory mount (CVE-2024-9675) * Podman: Buildah: CRI-O: symlink traversal vulnerability in the containers/storage library can cause Denial of Service (DoS) (CVE-2024-9676) 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. Full details, updated packages, references, and other related information: https://errata.almalinux.org/9/ALSA-2024-9051.html This message is automatically generated, please don’t reply. For further questions, please, contact us via the AlmaLinux community chat: https://chat.almalinux.org/. Want to change your notification settings? Sign in and manage mailing lists on https://lists.almalinux.org. Kind regards, AlmaLinux Team

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[Security Advisory] ALSA-2024:8935: edk2 security update (Moderate)
by AlmaLinux Errata Notifications 08 Nov '24

08 Nov '24

Hi, You are receiving an AlmaLinux Security update email because you subscribed to receive errata notifications from AlmaLinux. AlmaLinux: 9 Type: Security Severity: Moderate Release date: 2024-11-08 Summary: EDK (Embedded Development Kit) is a project to enable UEFI support for Virtual Machines. This package contains a sample 64-bit UEFI firmware for QEMU and KVM. Security Fix(es): * openssl: Possible denial of service in X.509 name checks (CVE-2024-6119) 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. Full details, updated packages, references, and other related information: https://errata.almalinux.org/9/ALSA-2024-8935.html This message is automatically generated, please don’t reply. For further questions, please, contact us via the AlmaLinux community chat: https://chat.almalinux.org/. Want to change your notification settings? Sign in and manage mailing lists on https://lists.almalinux.org. Kind regards, AlmaLinux Team

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