RHSA-2024:2396 — Security Advisory
Red Hat Security Advisory: squashfs-tools security update
Severity
ModerateRed Hat Product Security
Products
Official CSAF product identity
Published · April 30, 2024
Updated · March 18, 2026
Topic
An update for squashfs-tools is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.
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
SquashFS is a highly compressed read-only file system for Linux. These packages contain the utilities for manipulating squashfs file systems.
Security Fix(es):
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squashfs-tools: unvalidated filepaths allow writing outside of destination (CVE-2021-40153)
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squashfs-tools: possible Directory Traversal via symbolic link (CVE-2021-41072)
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 9.4 Release Notes linked from the References section.