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
| Release | Package | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| Rocky Linux · 8 | rear | 0:2.6-11.el8_9 |
Vulnerabilities 1
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Medium 5.5
Relax-and-Recover (aka ReaR) through 2.7 creates a world-readable initrd when using GRUB_RESCUE=y. This allows local at…
References
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report
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2258396