Secunia Security Advisory - Mandriva has issued an update for e2fsprogs. This fixes a vulnerability, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise an application using the library.
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TITLE:
Mandriva update for e2fsprogs
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA28042
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/28042/
CRITICAL:
Less critical
IMPACT:
DoS, System access
WHERE:
>From remote
OPERATING SYSTEM:
Mandriva Linux 2007
http://secunia.com/product/12165/
DESCRIPTION:
Mandriva has issued an update for e2fsprogs. This fixes a
vulnerability, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people
to compromise an application using the library.
For more information:
SA27889
SOLUTION:
Apply updated packages.
-- Mandriva Linux 2007 --
ff40ef940d3bbce7c4314d0bf06d529f
2007.0/i586/e2fsprogs-1.39-2.1mdv2007.0.i586.rpm
3159902d97bdc6871faec84838c9a5ab
2007.0/i586/libext2fs2-1.39-2.1mdv2007.0.i586.rpm
ec4e5539f5168aa045899458ec2b82c3
2007.0/i586/libext2fs2-devel-1.39-2.1mdv2007.0.i586.rpm
8cb48b6e43625f33f37554445f65f2f0
2007.0/SRPMS/e2fsprogs-1.39-2.1mdv2007.0.src.rpm
-- Mandriva Linux 2007/X86_64 --
31ad9695ac03879d202ae8e1800e8df4
2007.0/x86_64/e2fsprogs-1.39-2.1mdv2007.0.x86_64.rpm
3fe3232e9f750d3855796e9ada2c7b18
2007.0/x86_64/lib64ext2fs2-1.39-2.1mdv2007.0.x86_64.rpm
cd1392e26b4c68be93c232cd991b0ef8
2007.0/x86_64/lib64ext2fs2-devel-1.39-2.1mdv2007.0.x86_64.rpm
8cb48b6e43625f33f37554445f65f2f0
2007.0/SRPMS/e2fsprogs-1.39-2.1mdv2007.0.src.rpm
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.mandriva.com/en/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:242
OTHER REFERENCES:
SA27889:
http://secunia.com/advisories/27889/
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