Fedora 22: 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
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 .