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Fedora 21 : e2fsprogs-1.42.12-3.fc21 (2015-2511)
medium Nessus Plugin ID 81613
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Synopsis
The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.Description
- Fix potential buffer overflow in closefs (#1193947, CVE-2015-1572)- Fix dumpe2fs segfault with no arguments (#1194063)
- Don't require fsck prior to resize2fs -P (#1170803) Changes e2fsck.conf so that for filesystems with time-based check intervals set in the superblock, these time-based checks will work again. You may need to wait through an e2fsck on your next reboot in this case.
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Solution
Update the affected e2fsprogs package.See Also
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 81613
File Name: fedora_2015-2511.nasl
Version: 1.4
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Fedora Local Security Checks
Published: 3/5/2015
Updated: 1/11/2021
Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Medium
Score: 5.9
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 4.6
Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Vulnerability Information
CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:21, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:e2fsprogs
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list
Patch Publication Date: 2/25/2015
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2015-0247, CVE-2015-1572
FEDORA: 2015-2511