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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8: RHSA-2020-1913 Moderate: E2fsprogs Bug Fix

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Calendar Grey April 28, 2020
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Oracle Linux Security Bulletin SLSA-2023-4567 issued: Important OpenSSL updates and vulnerability patches for Oracle Linux 8.
An update for e2fsprogs is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Summary

The e2fsprogs packages provide a number of utilities for creating, checking, modifying, and correcting the ext2, ext3, and ext4 file systems.
The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: e2fsprogs (1.45.4). (BZ#1783777)
Security Fix(es):
* e2fsprogs: crafted ext4 partition leads to out-of-bounds write (CVE-2019-5094)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
Additional Changes:
For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Release Notes linked from the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory bug fix Red Hat Enterprise Linux e2fsprogs Moderate out-of-bounds write CVE-2019-5094

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-5094 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.2_release_notes/index

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8):
Source: e2fsprogs-1.45.4-3.el8.src.rpm
aarch64: e2fsprogs-1.45.4-3.el8.aarch64.rpm e2fsprogs-debuginfo-1.45.4-3.el8.aarch64.rpm e2fsprogs-debugsource-1.45.4-3.el8.aarch64.rpm e2fsprogs-devel-1.45.4-3.el8.aarch64.rpm e2fsprogs-libs-1.45.4-3.el8.aarch64.rpm e2fsprogs-libs-debuginfo-1.45.4-3.el8.aarch64.rpm libcom_err-1.45.4-3.el8.aarch64.rpm libcom_err-debuginfo-1.45.4-3.el8.aarch64.rpm libcom_err-devel-1.45.4-3.el8.aarch64.rpm libss-1.45.4-3.el8.aarch64.rpm libss-debuginfo-1.45.4-3.el8.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le: e2fsprogs-1.45.4-3.el8.ppc64le.rpm e2fsprogs-debuginfo-1.45.4-3.el8.ppc64le.rpm e2fsprogs-debugsource-1.45.4-3.el8.ppc64le.rpm e2fsprogs-devel-1.45.4-3.el8.ppc64le.rpm e2fsprogs-libs-1.45.4-3.el8.ppc64le.rpm e2fsprogs-libs-debuginfo-1.45.4-3.el8.ppc64le.rpm libcom_err-1.45.4-3.el8.ppc64le.rpm libcom_err-debuginfo-1.45.4-3.el8.ppc64le.rpm libcom_err-devel-1.45.4-3.el8.ppc64le.rpm libss-1.45.4-3.el8.ppc64le.rpm libss-debuginfo-1.45.4-3.el8.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: e2fsprogs-1.45.4-3.el8.s390x.rpm e2fsprogs-debuginfo-1.45.4-3.el8.s390x.rpm e2fsprogs-debugsource-1.45.4-3.el8.s390x.rpm e2fsprogs-devel-1.45.4-3.el8.s390x.rpm e2fsprogs-libs-1.45.4-3.el8.s390x.rpm e2fsprogs-libs-debuginfo-1.45.4-3.el8.s390x.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


Advisory ID: RHSA-2020:1913-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:1913
Issue date: 2020-04-28

Topic

An update for e2fsprogs is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, whichgives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability fromthe CVE link(s) in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory bug fix Red Hat Enterprise Linux e2fsprogs Moderate out-of-bounds write CVE-2019-5094

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1768555 - CVE-2019-5094 e2fsprogs: crafted ext4 partition leads to out-of-bounds write

1780279 - RFE: Update mke2fs.conf to provide easy method of making RHEL6/7-compatible filesystems

1783777 - [Rebase] Rebase e2fsprogs to 1.45.4

1788573 - e2fsprogs: Document supported features/options in ext4 man page

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