Moderate: e2fsprogs security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Synopsis

Moderate: e2fsprogs security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Moderate

Topic

An update for e2fsprogs is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

The e2fsprogs packages provide a number of utilities for creating, checking, modifying, and correcting the ext2, ext3, and ext4 file systems.

The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: e2fsprogs (1.45.4). (BZ#1783777)

Security Fix(es):

• e2fsprogs: crafted ext4 partition leads to out-of-bounds write (CVE-2019-5094)
  

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 8.2 Release Notes linked from the References section.

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

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 8 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 8 aarch64

Fixes

• BZ - 1768555 - CVE-2019-5094 e2fsprogs: crafted ext4 partition leads to out-of-bounds write
• BZ - 1780279 - RFE: Update mke2fs.conf to provide easy method of making RHEL6/7-compatible filesystems
• BZ - 1783777 - [Rebase] Rebase e2fsprogs to 1.45.4
• BZ - 1788573 - e2fsprogs: Document supported features/options in ext4 man page

CVEs

• CVE-2019-5094

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
• https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.2_release_notes/index