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Medium RLSA-2024:2396 2 CVEs

Moderate: squashfs-tools security update

Published May 7, 2025 · Updated Oct 7, 2025

Summary

SquashFS is a highly compressed read-only file system for Linux. These packages contain the utilities for manipulating squashfs file systems.

Security Fix(es):

* squashfs-tools: unvalidated filepaths allow writing outside of destination (CVE-2021-40153)

* squashfs-tools: possible Directory Traversal via symbolic link (CVE-2021-41072)

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.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Rocky Linux 9.4 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Fixed packages 1

ReleasePackageFixed in
Rocky Linux · 9 squashfs-tools 0:4.4-10.git1.el9

Vulnerabilities 2

References

  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1998621
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2004957