Bug 2364905

Summary: CVE-2025-47203 dropbear: command injection via an untrusted hostname argument [fedora-42]
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Robb Gatica <rgatica>
Component: dropbearAssignee: fedepell <fede>
Status: ON_QA --- QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 42CC: buytenh, epel-packagers-sig, fede, i
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Description Robb Gatica 2025-05-07 19:58:55 UTC
More information about this security flaw is available in the following bug:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2364884

Disclaimer: Community trackers are created by Red Hat Product Security team on a best effort basis. Package maintainers are required to ascertain if the flaw indeed affects their package, before starting the update process.

Comment 1 Fedora Update System 2025-05-15 14:32:38 UTC
FEDORA-2025-86022c9c44 (dropbear-2025.88-1.fc42) has been submitted as an update to Fedora 42.
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2025-86022c9c44

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2025-05-16 01:58:11 UTC
FEDORA-2025-86022c9c44 has been pushed to the Fedora 42 testing repository.
Soon you'll be able to install the update with the following command:
`sudo dnf upgrade --enablerepo=updates-testing --refresh --advisory=FEDORA-2025-86022c9c44`
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2025-86022c9c44

See also https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for more information on how to test updates.