Back Linuxsecurity Fedora 43 openQA Critical CVE-2025
openQA is a testing framework that allows you to test GUI applications on one hand and bootloader and kernel on the other. In both cases, it is difficult to script tests and verify the output. Output can be a popup window or it can be an error in early boot even before init is executed. openQA is an automated test tool that makes it possible to test the whole installation process of an operating system. It uses virtual machines to reproduce the process, check the output (both serial console and screen) in every step and send the necessary keystrokes and commands to proceed to the . openQA can check whether the system can be installed, whether it works properly in 'live' mode, whether applications work or whether the system responds as expected to different installation options and commands. Even more importantly, openQA can run several combinations of tests for every revision of the operating system, reporting the errors detected for each combination of hardware configuration, installation options and variant of the operating system. Update Information : This update provides new upstream snapshots of openQA and os-autoinst, with various fixes and enhancements. Please see upstream changelogs for details. They also address a CVE by updating a bundled javascript library, though we're fairly sure openQA didn't actually expose the vulnerability anyway.
openQA is a testing framework that allows you to test GUI applications on one
hand and bootloader and kernel on the other. In both cases, it is difficult to
script tests and verify the output. Output can be a popup window or it can be
an error in early boot even before init is executed.
openQA is an automated test tool that makes it possible to test the whole
installation process of an operating system. It uses virtual machines to
reproduce the process, check the output (both serial console and screen) in
every step and send the necessary keystrokes and commands to proceed to the
. openQA can check whether the system can be installed, whether it works
properly in 'live' mode, whether applications work or whether the system
responds as expected to different installation options and commands.
Even more importantly, openQA can run several combinations of tests for every
revision of the operating system, reporting the errors detected for each
combination of hardware configuration, installation options and variant of the
This update provides new upstream snapshots of openQA and os-autoinst, with various fixes and enhancements. Please see upstream changelogs for details. They also address a CVE by updating a bundled javascript library, though we're fairly sure openQA didn't actually expose the vulnerability anyway.
* Mon Jan 26 2026 Adam Williamson - 5^20260126git19189f0-1 - Update to latest upstream git - Drop merged patches * Fri Jan 16 2026 Fedora Release Engineering - 5^20250711git28a0214-4 - Rebuilt for
* Mon Jan 26 2026 Adam Williamson - 5^20260126git19189f0-1 - Update to latest upstream git - Drop merged patches * Fri Jan 16 2026 Fedora Release Engineering - 5^20250711git28a0214-4 - Rebuilt for
[ 1 ] Bug #2433034 - CVE-2025-13465 openqa: prototype pollution in _.unset and _.omit functions [fedora-43]
[ 1 ] Bug #2433034 - CVE-2025-13465 openqa: prototype pollution in _.unset and _.omit functions [fedora-43]
This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2026-abd2d2d60c' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at
This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2026-abd2d2d60c' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at
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