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Fedora: TestDisk 7.0 Critical Stack Overflow Fix and Improvements

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TestDisk 7.0 release enhances efficiency and addresses buffer overflow vulnerabilities in Fedora 20, introducing additional recovery functionalities.
TestDisk 7.0 fixes several stack overflows

Summary

Tool to check and undelete partition. Works with FAT12, FAT16, FAT32,

NTFS, ext2, ext3, ext4, btrfs, BeFS, CramFS, HFS, JFS, Linux Raid, Linux

Swap, LVM, LVM2, NSS, ReiserFS, UFS, XFS.

PhotoRec is a signature based file recovery utility. It handles more than

440 file formats including JPG, MSOffice, OpenOffice documents.

Update Information:

TestDisk 7.0 fixes several stack overflows. The new photorec is faster. qphotorec is a qt4 version of PhotoRec. Full release notes: https://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_7.0_Release

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security advisory update Fedora security fix stack overflow file recovery TestDisk

Change Log

* Thu Apr 23 2015 Christophe Grenier - 7.0-2 - Move qphotorec to a subpackage - rebuild for ntfs-3g-2015.3.14 * Sat Apr 18 2015 Christophe Grenier - 7.0-1 - Update to latest version - This version includes some security fixes.

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1036410 - [abrt] testdisk-6.14-2.fc20: strcmp: Process /usr/bin/testdisk was killed by signal 11 (SIGSEGV) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1036410 [ 2 ] Bug #1116512 - Please update to 7.0 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1116512 [ 3 ] Bug #1214681 - testdisk 7.x dependency issue https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1214681 [ 4 ] Bug #1213070 - testdisk-7.0 is available https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1213070 [ 5 ] Bug #1215250 - RFE: Please split the package into GUI and CLI part https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1215250

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update testdisk' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .

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Name: testdisk
Product: Fedora 20
Version: 7.0
Release: 2.fc20
URL: https://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk
Summary: Tool to check and undelete partition, PhotoRec recovers lost files

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security advisory update Fedora security fix stack overflow file recovery TestDisk

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