Fedora 22 TestDisk Security Advisory: Critical Stack Overflow Fix
fedora
April 29, 2015
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
Topics Covered
Change Log
References
[ 1 ] Bug #1116512 - Please update to 7.0
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1116512
[ 2 ] Bug #1213070 - testdisk-7.0 is available
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1213070
[ 3 ] 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
[ 4 ] Bug #1214681 - testdisk 7.x dependency issue
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1214681
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 22
Version: 7.0
Release: 2.fc22
Summary: Tool to check and undelete partition, PhotoRec recovers lost files
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