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Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package popt  (opens in a new tab)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-POPT-1362268
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed11 Mar 2021
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Introduced: 11 Mar 2021

CVE-2021-3421  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-347  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:8.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream popt package and not the popt package as distributed by RHEL.

A flaw was found in the RPM package in the read functionality. This flaw allows an attacker who can convince a victim to install a seemingly verifiable package or compromise an RPM repository, to cause RPM database corruption. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data integrity. This flaw affects RPM versions before 4.17.0-alpha.

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