Package hardlink: Information

    Binary package: hardlink
    Version: 2.38.1-alt1
    Architecture: armh
    Build time:  Oct 15, 2022, 06:12 PM in the task #308470
    Source package: util-linux
    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: Consolidate duplicate files via hardlinks
    Description: 
    This package contains hardlink, an utility which consolidates duplicate
    files in one or more directories using hardlinks.
    
    hardlink traverses one or more directories searching for duplicate files.
    When it finds duplicate files, it uses one of them as the master.  It then
    removes all other duplicates and places a hardlink for each one pointing
    to the master file.  This allows for conservation of disk space where
    multiple directories on a single filesystem contain many duplicate files.
    
    Since hard links can only span a single filesystem, hardlink is only
    useful when all directories specified are on the same filesystem.

    Maintainer: Alexey Gladkov


    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.