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Medium ALSA-2024:1719 1 CVE

Moderate: rear security update

Published Apr 9, 2024 · Updated Oct 29, 2026

Summary

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.

Fixed packages 1

ReleasePackageFixed in
AlmaLinux · 8 rear 2.6-11.el8_9.alma.1

Vulnerabilities 1

References

  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-23301
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2258396
  • advisory
    https://errata.almalinux.org/8/ALSA-2024-1719.html