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Fedora 44 abrt Vulnerability in Content Injection and Race Condition

Fedora 44 abrt Vulnerability in Content Injection and Race Condition

Linuxsecurity •LinuxSecurity Advisories • August 5, 2026

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abrt is a tool to help users to detect defects in applications and

to create a bug report with all information needed by maintainer to fix it.

It uses plugin system to extend its functionality.

Update to 2.17.9 Resolves: rhbz#2484614 Resolves: CVE-2026-54230 Resolves: CVE-2026-54231 Resolves: CVE-2026-54228 Resolves: CVE-2026-54229

* Mon Aug 3 2026 Michal Srb - 2.17.9-1 - Fix journal entry spoofing in journal dump services - Resolves: rhbz#2484614 - Fix symlink following in event handler scripts - Resolves: CVE-2026-54230 - Fix content injection in journal log collection - Resolves: CVE-2026-54231 - Fix TOCTOU in SetElement/DeleteElement - Resolves: CVE-2026-54228 - Fix race condition in ChownProblemDir - Resolves: CVE-2026-54229 * Wed Jul 22 2026 Python Maint - 2.17.8-6 - Rebuilt for Python 3.15.0b4 ABI change * Wed Jul 15 2026 Fedora Release Engineering - 2.17.8-5 - Rebuilt for * Thu Jun 4 2026 Python Maint - 2.17.8-4 - Rebuilt for Python 3.15

* Mon Aug 3 2026 Michal Srb - 2.17.9-1 - Fix journal entry spoofing in journal dump services - Resolves: rhbz#2484614 - Fix symlink following in event handler scripts - Resolves: CVE-2026-54230 - Fix content injection in journal log collection - Resolves: CVE-2026-54231 - Fix TOCTOU in SetElement/DeleteElement - Resolves: CVE-2026-54228 - Fix race condition in ChownProblemDir - Resolves: CVE-2026-54229 * Wed Jul 22 2026 Python Maint - 2.17.8-6 - Rebuilt for Python 3.15.0b4 ABI change * Wed Jul 15 2026 Fedora Release Engineering - 2.17.8-5 - Rebuilt for * Thu Jun 4 2026 Python Maint - 2.17.8-4 - Rebuilt for Python 3.15

[ 1 ] Bug #2484614 - ABRT abrt-dump-journal-core trusts spoofed systemd-coredump journal fields, allowing local root file disclosure [ 2 ] Bug #2488616 - CVE-2026-54228 abrt: TOCTOU race condition in abrt-dbus SetElement allows arbitrary file writes to dump directories [fedora-all] [ 3 ] Bug #2488617 - CVE-2026-54229 abrt: ChownProblemDir succeeds during active post-create event processing due to inadequate locking [fedora-all] [ 4 ] Bug #2488618 - CVE-2026-54231 abrt: unsanitized systemd journal content written to dump directory files enables content injection [fedora-all] [ 5 ] Bug #2488619 - CVE-2026-54230 abrt: event handler scripts follow symlinks when writing output files, allowing arbitrary file overwrites [fedora-all] ...

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2026-a7417466a1' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

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