Advisories » MGASA-2020-0436

Updated f2fs-tools packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 23 Nov 2020
Modification date: 23 Nov 2020
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 7
CVE: CVE-2020-6070

Description

An exploitable code execution vulnerability exists in the file system checking
functionality of fsck.f2fs 1.12.0. A specially crafted f2fs file can cause a
logic flaw and out-of-bounds heap operations, resulting in code execution. An
attacker can provide a malicious file to trigger this vulnerability
(CVE-2020-6070).
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27413
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/3SZ4HMQKNI35NBWJI6XMJBGWPEKZRR72/
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-6070

SRPMS

7/core

• f2fs-tools-1.14.0-1.mga7