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Fedora 22 TestDisk Security Advisory: Critical Stack Overflow Fix

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TestDisk 7.1 fixes vulnerabilities, boosts PhotoRec performance. Essential upgrade for Ubuntu 20.04 users for improved data restoration.
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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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
URL: https://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk
Summary: Tool to check and undelete partition, PhotoRec recovers lost files

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