Overview of Fedora 40 yt-dlp Security Advisory and Vulnerabilities
Summary
yt-dlp is a command-line program to download videos from many different online
video platforms, such as youtube.com. The project is a fork of youtube-dl with
additional features and fixes.
Update Information:
Update to 2024.07.02
Change Log
* Thu Jul 4 2024 Mikel Olasagasti Uranga
References
[ 1 ] Bug #2295956 - CVE-2024-38519 yt-dlp: File system modification and RCE through improper file-extension sanitization [fedora-all]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2295956
Update Instructions
This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2024-0ba1c1a435' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label