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Calendar Grey February 22, 2015
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Debian released an urgent advisory regarding a buffer overflow flaw in e2fsprogs, advising users to upgrade to a safe version to prevent breaches and ensure system integrity against threats
Jose Duart of the Google Security Team discovered a buffer overflow in in e2fsprogs, a set of utilities for the ext2, ext3, and ext4 file systems
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Summary

CVE-2015-0247

Buffer overflow in the ext2/ext3/ext4 file system open/close routines.

CVE-2015-1572

Incomplete fix for CVE-2015-0247.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in
version 1.42.5-1.1+deb7u1.

For the upcoming stable (jessie) and unstable (sid) distributions,
these problems will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you upgrade your e2fsprogs packages.

Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://www.debian.org/security/



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Package: e2fsprogs
CVE ID: CVE-2015-0247 CVE-2015-1572

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