Gentoo: 200712-13 Normal: E2fsprogs Multiple Buffer Overflow
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December 18, 2007
Multiple heap-based buffer overflows in E2fsprogs could result in the execution of arbitrary code.
Summary
Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200712-13
https://security.gentoo.org/
Severity: Normal
Title: E2fsprogs: Multiple buffer overflows
Date: December 18, 2007
Bugs: #201546
ID: 200712-13
Synopsis
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Multiple heap-based buffer overflows in E2fsprogs could result in the
execution of arbitrary code.
Background
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E2fsprogs provides utilities for use with the ext2 and ext3 file
systems including the libext2fs library that allows user-level programs
to manipulate an ext2 or ext3 file system.
Affected packages
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1 sys-fs/e2fsprogs < 1.40.3 >= 1.40.3
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Rafal Wojtczuk (McAfee AVERT Research) discovered multiple inte...
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