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SUSE: 2015:1103-1 Important: e2fsprogs Buffer Overflow Threat

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Calendar Grey June 23, 2015
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SUSE e2fsprogs security update SUSE-SU-2016:2020-1 tackles critical memory corruption vulnerabilities.
An update that contains security fixes can now be installed

Summary

This update provides the following security-fixes for e2fsprogs: libext2fs: fix potential buffer overflow in closefs() (bsc#918346, CVE-2015-1572) libext2fs: avoid buffer overflow if s_first_meta_bg is too big (bsc#915402, CVE-2015-0247) Patch Instructions: To install this SUSE Security Update use YaST online_update. Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product: - SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11-SP4: zypper in -t patch sdksp4-e2fsprogs-219=1 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP4: zypper in -t patch slessp4-e2fsprogs-219=1 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11-SP4: zypper in -t patch sledsp4-e2fsprogs-219=1 To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch". Package List: - SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11-SP4 (i586 ia64 ppc64 s390x x86_64):

References

#915402 #918346

Affected Products:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11-SP4

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP4

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11-SP4

https://bugzilla.suse.com/915402

https://bugzilla.suse.com/918346

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2015:1103-1
Rating: important

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