RHSA-2021:4464 — Security Advisory

Red Hat Security Advisory: dnf security and bug fix update

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

RHEL 8

Products

Official CSAF product identity

Published · November 10, 2021

Updated · June 27, 2026

Topic

An update for dnf, dnf-plugins-core, and libdnf is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

dnf is a package manager that allows users to manage packages on their systems. It supports RPMs, modules and comps groups & environments.

Security Fix(es):

  • libdnf: Signature verification bypass via signature placed in the main RPM header (CVE-2021-3445)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.5 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Related CVEs

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