Advisories » MGASA-2015-0088

Updated e2fsprogs packages fix CVE-2015-1572

Publication date: 26 Feb 2015
Modification date: 26 Feb 2015
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 4
CVE: CVE-2015-1572

Description

Updated e2fsprogs packages fix security vulnerability:

The libext2fs library, part of e2fsprogs and utilized by its utilities, is
affected by a boundary check error on block group descriptor information,
leading to a heap based buffer overflow. A specially crafted filesystem image
can be used to trigger the vulnerability. This is due to an incomplete fix
for CVE-2015-0247 (CVE-2015-1572).
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15352
• http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0061.html
• https://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3166
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-1572

SRPMS

4/core

• e2fsprogs-1.42.9-2.2.mga4