Fedora 20: testdisk Security Update
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
Change Log
* Thu Apr 23 2015 Christophe Grenier
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 .