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Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2015-068

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2015-068
Posted Mar 27, 2015
Authored by Mandriva | Site mandriva.com

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2015-068 - The libext2fs library, part of e2fsprogs and utilized by its utilities, is affected by a boundary check error on block group descriptor information, leading to a heap based buffer overflow. A specially crafted filesystem image can be used to trigger the vulnerability. This is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2015-0247.

tags | advisory, overflow
systems | linux, mandriva
advisories | CVE-2015-1572
SHA-256 | b547da908cb77286fbeb20f7ea69d2f1207a558ac6ff96033a398ae85fdf31e0

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2015-068

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Mandriva Linux Security Advisory MDVSA-2015:068
http://www.mandriva.com/en/support/security/
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Package : e2fsprogs
Date : March 27, 2015
Affected: Business Server 1.0
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Problem Description:

Updated e2fsprogs packages fix security vulnerability:

The libext2fs library, part of e2fsprogs and utilized by its utilities,
is affected by a boundary check error on block group descriptor
information, leading to a heap based buffer overflow. A specially
crafted filesystem image can be used to trigger the vulnerability. This
is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2015-0247 (CVE-2015-1572).
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References:

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-1572
http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0088.html
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Updated Packages:

Mandriva Business Server 1/X86_64:
c381ffdfcbbc6436d12a691fb189bc4a mbs1/x86_64/e2fsprogs-1.42.2-3.2.mbs1.x86_64.rpm
c412ea8214cae65e0b6c2f7a59fccb86 mbs1/x86_64/lib64ext2fs2-1.42.2-3.2.mbs1.x86_64.rpm
a566011e1f49cb0c344ee9f0264292d9 mbs1/x86_64/lib64ext2fs-devel-1.42.2-3.2.mbs1.x86_64.rpm
4243113dd7da88065f540ac404204d93 mbs1/SRPMS/e2fsprogs-1.42.2-3.2.mbs1.src.rpm
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To upgrade automatically use MandrivaUpdate or urpmi. The verification
of md5 checksums and GPG signatures is performed automatically for you.

All packages are signed by Mandriva for security. You can obtain the
GPG public key of the Mandriva Security Team by executing:

gpg --recv-keys --keyserver pgp.mit.edu 0x22458A98

You can view other update advisories for Mandriva Linux at:

http://www.mandriva.com/en/support/security/advisories/

If you want to report vulnerabilities, please contact

security_(at)_mandriva.com
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pub 1024D/22458A98 2000-07-10 Mandriva Security Team
<security*mandriva.com>
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