Package util-linux: Information

Source package: util-linux
Version: 2.38.1-alt1
Build time:  Nov 8, 2022, 03:54 PM in the task #309135
Category: System/Base
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License: GPL-2.0 and GPL-2.0-or-later and LGPL-2.1-or-later and BSD-3-Clause and BSD-4-Clause-UC and ALT-Public-Domain
Summary: A collection of basic system utilities
Description: 
The util-linux package contains a large variety of low-level system
utilities that are necessary for a Linux system to function. Among
others, Util-linux contains the fdisk configuration tool and the login
program.

List of rpms provided by this srpm:
agetty (x86_64, ppc64le, i586, armh, aarch64)
agetty-debuginfo (x86_64, ppc64le, i586, armh, aarch64)
bash-completion-util-linux (noarch)
cfdisk (x86_64, ppc64le, i586, armh, aarch64)
cfdisk-debuginfo (x86_64, ppc64le, i586, armh, aarch64)
fdisk (x86_64, ppc64le, i586, armh, aarch64)
fdisk-debuginfo (x86_64, ppc64le, i586, armh, aarch64)
getopt (x86_64, ppc64le, i586, armh, aarch64)
getopt-debuginfo (x86_64, ppc64le, i586, armh, aarch64)
hardlink (x86_64, ppc64le, i586, armh, aarch64)
hardlink-debuginfo (x86_64, ppc64le, i586, armh, aarch64)
hwclock (x86_64, ppc64le, i586, armh, aarch64)
hwclock-debuginfo (x86_64, ppc64le, i586, armh, aarch64)
libblkid (x86_64, ppc64le, i586, armh, aarch64)
libblkid-debuginfo (x86_64, ppc64le, i586, armh, aarch64)
libblkid-devel (x86_64, ppc64le, i586, armh, aarch64)
libblkid-devel-static (x86_64, ppc64le, i586, armh, aarch64)
libfdisk (x86_64, ppc64le, i586, armh, aarch64)
libfdisk-debuginfo (x86_64, ppc64le, i586, armh, aarch64)
libfdisk-devel (x86_64, ppc64le, i586, armh, aarch64)
libfdisk-devel-static (x86_64, ppc64le, i586, armh, aarch64)
libmount (x86_64, ppc64le, i586, armh, aarch64)
libmount-debuginfo (x86_64, ppc64le, i586, armh, aarch64)
libmount-devel (x86_64, ppc64le, i586, armh, aarch64)
libmount-devel-static (x86_64, ppc64le, i586, armh, aarch64)
libsmartcols (x86_64, ppc64le, i586, armh, aarch64)
libsmartcols-debuginfo (x86_64, ppc64le, i586, armh, aarch64)
libsmartcols-devel (x86_64, ppc64le, i586, armh, aarch64)
libsmartcols-devel-static (x86_64, ppc64le, i586, armh, aarch64)
libuuid (x86_64, ppc64le, i586, armh, aarch64)
libuuid-debuginfo (x86_64, ppc64le, i586, armh, aarch64)
libuuid-devel (x86_64, ppc64le, i586, armh, aarch64)
libuuid-devel-static (x86_64, ppc64le, i586, armh, aarch64)
look (x86_64, ppc64le, i586, armh, aarch64)
look-debuginfo (x86_64, ppc64le, i586, armh, aarch64)
losetup (x86_64, ppc64le, i586, armh, aarch64)
losetup-debuginfo (x86_64, ppc64le, i586, armh, aarch64)
lsblk (x86_64, ppc64le, i586, armh, aarch64)
lsblk-debuginfo (x86_64, ppc64le, i586, armh, aarch64)
mount (x86_64, ppc64le, i586, armh, aarch64)
mount-debuginfo (x86_64, ppc64le, i586, armh, aarch64)
rfkill (x86_64, ppc64le, i586, armh, aarch64)
rfkill-debuginfo (x86_64, ppc64le, i586, armh, aarch64)
schedutils (x86_64, ppc64le, i586, armh, aarch64)
schedutils-debuginfo (x86_64, ppc64le, i586, armh, aarch64)
setarch (x86_64, ppc64le, i586, armh, aarch64)
setarch-debuginfo (x86_64, ppc64le, i586, armh, aarch64)
sfdisk (x86_64, ppc64le, i586, armh, aarch64)
sfdisk-debuginfo (x86_64, ppc64le, i586, armh, aarch64)
util-linux (x86_64, ppc64le, i586, armh, aarch64)
util-linux-control (noarch)
util-linux-debuginfo (x86_64, ppc64le, i586, armh, aarch64)
uuidd (x86_64, ppc64le, i586, armh, aarch64)
uuidd-debuginfo (x86_64, ppc64le, i586, armh, aarch64)

Maintainer: Alexey Gladkov


    1. libselinux-devel
    2. /dev/pts
    3. /proc
    4. klibc-devel
    5. libaudit-devel
    6. asciidoctor
    7. bash4
    8. libudev-devel
    9. libncursesw-devel
    10. libpam-devel
    11. libpopt-devel
    12. zlib-devel
    13. glibc-devel-static
    14. libcap-ng-devel

Last changed


Oct. 15, 2022 Alexey Gladkov 2.38.1-alt1
- New version (2.38.1) (fixes: CVE-2023-0563).
Jan. 25, 2022 Alexey Gladkov 2.37.3-alt2
- Set restricted execution mode to mount/umount/write by default.
Jan. 24, 2022 Alexey Gladkov 2.37.3-alt1
- New version (2.37.3).
- Security fixes:
  + CVE-2021-3995: This issue is related to parsing the /proc/self/mountinfo
  file allows an unprivileged user to unmount other user's filesystems that are
  either world-writable themselves or mounted in a world-writable directory.
  + CVE-2021-3996: Improper UID check in libmount allows an unprivileged user to
  unmount FUSE filesystems of users with similar UID.