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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 RHSA-2022-8361-01: Moderate E2fsprogs Fix

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Calendar Grey November 15, 2022
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Get informed about the recent Red Hat security notice regarding e2fsprogs, which tackles a moderate risk vulnerability affecting ext4 filesystems.
An update for e2fsprogs is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

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: out-of-bounds read/write via crafted filesystem (CVE-2022-1304)
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 9.1 Release Notes linked from the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate security update Red Hat Enterprise Linux e2fsprogs out-of-bounds ext4 filesystem

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-1304 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#moderate https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_enterprise_linux/9/html/9.1_release_notes/index

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9):
aarch64: e2fsprogs-debuginfo-1.46.5-3.el9.aarch64.rpm e2fsprogs-debugsource-1.46.5-3.el9.aarch64.rpm e2fsprogs-devel-1.46.5-3.el9.aarch64.rpm e2fsprogs-libs-debuginfo-1.46.5-3.el9.aarch64.rpm libcom_err-debuginfo-1.46.5-3.el9.aarch64.rpm libcom_err-devel-1.46.5-3.el9.aarch64.rpm libss-debuginfo-1.46.5-3.el9.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le: e2fsprogs-debuginfo-1.46.5-3.el9.ppc64le.rpm e2fsprogs-debugsource-1.46.5-3.el9.ppc64le.rpm e2fsprogs-devel-1.46.5-3.el9.ppc64le.rpm e2fsprogs-libs-debuginfo-1.46.5-3.el9.ppc64le.rpm libcom_err-debuginfo-1.46.5-3.el9.ppc64le.rpm libcom_err-devel-1.46.5-3.el9.ppc64le.rpm libss-debuginfo-1.46.5-3.el9.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: e2fsprogs-debuginfo-1.46.5-3.el9.s390x.rpm e2fsprogs-debugsource-1.46.5-3.el9.s390x.rpm e2fsprogs-devel-1.46.5-3.el9.s390x.rpm e2fsprogs-libs-debuginfo-1.46.5-3.el9.s390x.rpm libcom_err-debuginfo-1.46.5-3.el9.s390x.rpm libcom_err-devel-1.46.5-3.el9.s390x.rpm libss-debuginfo-1.46.5-3.el9.s390x.rpm
x86_64: e2fsprogs-debuginfo-1.46.5-3.el9.i686.rpm e2fsprogs-debuginfo-1.46.5-3.el9.x86_64.rpm e2fsprogs-debugsource-1.46.5-3.el9.i686.rpm e2fsprogs-debugsource-1.46.5-3.el9.x86_64.rpm e2fsprogs-devel-1.46.5-3.el9.i686.rpm e2fsprogs-devel-1.46.5-3.el9.x86_64.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


Advisory ID: RHSA-2022:8361-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:8361
Issue date: 2022-11-15

Topic

An update for e2fsprogs is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.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 security update Red Hat Enterprise Linux e2fsprogs out-of-bounds ext4 filesystem

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

2069726 - CVE-2022-1304 e2fsprogs: out-of-bounds read/write via crafted filesystem

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