Bug 2403758 - Please branch and build 7zip in epel9
Summary: Please branch and build 7zip in epel9
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora EPEL
Classification: Fedora
Component: 7zip
Version: epel9
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Michel Lind
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Reported: 2025-10-14 11:29 UTC by Andreas Luik
Modified: 2026-07-21 00:28 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

Fixed In Version: 7zip-26.02-1.el9
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Last Closed: 2026-07-21 00:28:16 UTC
Type: Bug
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Description Andreas Luik 2025-10-14 11:29:14 UTC
Please branch and build 7zip in epel9.

Notes:
I'm aware of p7zip being available in epel9, but this software seems to be outdated/not maintained anymore.  Several CVEs are reported for it.

To prevent interfering with p7zip, the epel9 build of 7zip maybe should not have the "Provides: p7zip-plugins" setting (which the epel10 version has).

Comment 1 Gregory Young 2026-06-11 20:16:14 UTC
It appears the p7zip project was abandoned after the 7zip team started publishing a Linux version in 2016 (https://sourceforge.net/projects/p7zip/files/p7zip/16.02/). The last version available is 16.02, which is the version included in EPEL9 (https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=2560490).

Currently Wiz is flagging this package because it is vulnerable to CVE-2025-53816 (https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-53816) and CVE-2025-53817 (https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-53817).

I see the 7zip package, version 25.01, which solves these two CVEs, has been released for EPEL10 (https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=2866256), and it would be very helpful to have it for EPEL9 as Enterprise Linux 9 is still under active development and support.

Thank you.

Comment 2 Gregory Young 2026-06-11 20:24:16 UTC
Sorry to spam this bug, but after posting the above, I came across Debian's errata regarding p7zip and CVE-2025-53816 in which they indicate essentially the same as above, that p7zip is abandoned and backporting the fix would require a major refactor of the 16.02 code. Their solution was to release the 7zip version 25.00 as p7zip '16.02-really25.00'.

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2026/05/msg00021.html

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2026-07-01 18:19:41 UTC
FEDORA-EPEL-2026-f9c4dcd003 (7zip-26.02-1.el9) has been submitted as an update to Fedora EPEL 9.
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2026-f9c4dcd003

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2026-07-02 01:36:12 UTC
FEDORA-EPEL-2026-f9c4dcd003 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 9 testing repository.

You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2026-f9c4dcd003

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

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2026-07-21 00:28:16 UTC
FEDORA-EPEL-2026-f9c4dcd003 (7zip-26.02-1.el9) has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 9 stable repository.
If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.


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