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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Security Update: RHSA-2020:4011-01 for e2fsprogs

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Calendar Grey September 29, 2020
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Keep informed about the recent Red Hat e2fsprogs update addressing moderate vulnerabilities and essential critical corrections.
An update for e2fsprogs is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

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.
Security Fix(es):
* e2fsprogs: Crafted ext4 partition leads to out-of-bounds write (CVE-2019-5094)
* e2fsprogs: Out-of-bounds write in e2fsck/rehash.c (CVE-2019-5188)
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 7.9 Release Notes linked from the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate update bug fix Red Hat Enterprise Linux e2fsprogs out-of-bounds

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-5094 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-5188 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html/7.9_release_notes/index

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7):
Source: e2fsprogs-1.42.9-19.el7.src.rpm
x86_64: e2fsprogs-1.42.9-19.el7.x86_64.rpm e2fsprogs-debuginfo-1.42.9-19.el7.i686.rpm e2fsprogs-debuginfo-1.42.9-19.el7.x86_64.rpm e2fsprogs-libs-1.42.9-19.el7.i686.rpm e2fsprogs-libs-1.42.9-19.el7.x86_64.rpm libcom_err-1.42.9-19.el7.i686.rpm libcom_err-1.42.9-19.el7.x86_64.rpm libss-1.42.9-19.el7.i686.rpm libss-1.42.9-19.el7.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7):
x86_64: e2fsprogs-debuginfo-1.42.9-19.el7.i686.rpm e2fsprogs-debuginfo-1.42.9-19.el7.x86_64.rpm e2fsprogs-devel-1.42.9-19.el7.i686.rpm e2fsprogs-devel-1.42.9-19.el7.x86_64.rpm e2fsprogs-static-1.42.9-19.el7.i686.rpm e2fsprogs-static-1.42.9-19.el7.x86_64.rpm libcom_err-devel-1.42.9-19.el7.i686.rpm libcom_err-devel-1.42.9-19.el7.x86_64.rpm libss-devel-1.42.9-19.el7.i686.rpm libss-devel-1.42.9-19.el7.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7):
Source: e2fsprogs-1.42.9-19.el7.src.rpm
x86_64: e2fsprogs-1.42.9-19.el7.x86_64.rpm e2fsprogs-debuginfo-1.42.9-19.el7.i686.rpm e2fsprogs-debuginfo-1.42.9-19.el7.x86_64.rpm e2fsprogs-libs-1.42.9-19.el7.i686.rpm e2fsprogs-libs-1.42.9-19.el7.x86_64.rpm libcom_err-1.42.9-19.el7.i686.rpm libcom_err-1.42.9-19.el7.x86_64.rpm libss-1.42.9-19.el7.i686.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


Advisory ID: RHSA-2020:4011-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:4011
Issue date: 2020-09-29

Topic

An update for e2fsprogs is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.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 moderate update bug fix Red Hat Enterprise Linux e2fsprogs out-of-bounds

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) - ppc64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7) - ppc64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 7) - x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1711880 - [RHEL-7.7] e2image against meta_bg enabled ext4 image creates corrupts metadata on some arches

1720130 - [RHEL-7.7 e2fsprogs] fix typo in EXT4(5) man page

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

1780277 - Update mke2fs.conf to provide easy method of making RHEL6-compatible filesystems

1790048 - CVE-2019-5188 e2fsprogs: Out-of-bounds write in e2fsck/rehash.c

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