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Bug 2242014 - Ensure CVE-2023-4911 fix lands in Fedora 39 Final
Summary: Ensure CVE-2023-4911 fix lands in Fedora 39 Final
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: glibc
Version: 39
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Linux
unspecified
medium
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Assignee: Carlos O'Donell
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Whiteboard: AcceptedBlocker
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Blocks: F39FinalBlocker
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2023-10-03 21:04 UTC by Adam Williamson
Modified: 2023-10-04 17:16 UTC (History)
13 users (show)

Fixed In Version: glibc-2.38-6.fc39
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Last Closed: 2023-10-04 17:16:09 UTC
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Description Adam Williamson 2023-10-03 21:04:43 UTC 
This is a bureaucracy bug: it's filed to be proposed as a Fedora 39 Final blocker to ensure the fix for CVE-2023-4911 lands in Fedora 39. We already have https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2241966 , but that bug is for all Fedora releases and all three updates (F37, F38 and F39) are marked as "fixing" it, so it may well be closed before the F39 update goes stable.

The issue is rated "important" by RH - https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-4911 - so this is a violation of Final criterion "The release must contain no known security bugs of 'important' or higher impact according to the Red Hat severity classification scale which cannot be satisfactorily resolved by a package update (e.g. issues during installation)" - we can't really consider a bug in glibc to be fully resolved by a post-release update, I don't think.

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Fedora Update System 2023-10-03 21:05:24 UTC 
FEDORA-2023-63e5a77522 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 39. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2023-63e5a77522
Comment 2 Carlos O'Donell 2023-10-03 21:11:03 UTC 
(In reply to Adam Williamson from comment #0)
> This is a bureaucracy bug: it's filed to be proposed as a Fedora 39 Final
> blocker to ensure the fix for CVE-2023-4911 lands in Fedora 39. We already
> have https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2241966 , but that bug is
> for all Fedora releases and all three updates (F37, F38 and F39) are marked
> as "fixing" it, so it may well be closed before the F39 update goes stable.
> 
> The issue is rated "important" by RH -
> https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-4911 - so this is a
> violation of Final criterion "The release must contain no known security
> bugs of 'important' or higher impact according to the Red Hat severity
> classification scale which cannot be satisfactorily resolved by a package
> update (e.g. issues during installation)" - we can't really consider a bug
> in glibc to be fully resolved by a post-release update, I don't think.
> 
> Reproducible: Always

Thank you Adam! I was wondering exactly how I would achieve getting this fixed in Fedora 39 *before* GA.

Please tell me if I need to do anything more (builds are done, and you updated the errata in bodhi).
Comment 3 Adam Williamson 2023-10-03 21:20:48 UTC 
No problem! You don't need to do anything, your friendly local bureaucracy will take care of it from here. :D
Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2023-10-04 02:18:13 UTC 
FEDORA-2023-63e5a77522 has been pushed to the Fedora 39 testing repository.
Soon you'll be able to install the update with the following command:
`sudo dnf upgrade --enablerepo=updates-testing --refresh --advisory=FEDORA-2023-63e5a77522`
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2023-63e5a77522

See also https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for more information on how to test updates.
Comment 5 Adam Williamson 2023-10-04 16:48:55 UTC 
+5 in https://pagure.io/fedora-qa/blocker-review/issue/1369 , marking accepted.
Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2023-10-04 17:16:09 UTC 
FEDORA-2023-63e5a77522 has been pushed to the Fedora 39 stable repository.
If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.
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