Mageia 2019-0296 Moderate: E2fsprogs Buffer Overflow Exploit
mageia
October 16, 2019
Updated e2fsprogs packages fix security vulnerability: Lilith of Cisco Talos discovered a buffer overflow flaw in the quota code used by e2fsck from the ext2/ext3/ext4 file system...
Summary
Updated e2fsprogs packages fix security vulnerability:
Lilith of Cisco Talos discovered a buffer overflow flaw in the quota code
used by e2fsck from the ext2/ext3/ext4 file system utilities. Running
e2fsck on a malformed file system can result in the execution of arbitrary
code (CVE-2019-5094).
The e2fsprogs package has been updated to version 1.45.4, fixing this issue
and other bugs. See the upstream release notes for details.
References
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25562
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- https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2019/msg00183.html
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-5094
Topics Covered
Resolution
SRPMS
- 7/core/e2fsprogs-1.45.4-1.mga7
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Publication date: 16 Oct 2019
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2019-0296.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2019-5094
Topics Covered
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