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Fedora 20 : e2fsprogs-1.42.12-3.fc20 (2015-2516)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 81614

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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)

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Solution

Update the affected e2fsprogs package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1193945

http://www.nessus.org/u?97bd8bfe

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 81614

File Name: fedora_2015-2516.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/5/2015

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:e2fsprogs, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:20

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/25/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-0247, CVE-2015-1572

BID: 72520, 72709

FEDORA: 2015-2516