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I'll provide the same resolution as RHEL: > Red Hat Product Security has rated this issue as having Moderate security > impact. This issue is not exploitable in the default configuration […] > > Mitigation: > > This flaw, and many others like it, is mitigated by enabling hardlink and > symlink protections. These protections are enabled by default in [Fedora] > and this vulnerability will only be exploitable if disabled. > > To ensure your system is protected, check that `fs.protected_hardlinks` is > enabled as in the following example: > > # sysctl fs.protected_hardlinks > fs.protected_hardlinks = 1