SUSE SLED11 / SLES11 Security Update : e2fsprogs (SUSE-SU-2015:1364-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 85375

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

Two security issues were fixed in e2fsprogs :

CVE-2015-0247: Various heap overflows were fixed in e2fsprogs (fsck, dumpe2fs, e2image).

CVE-2015-1572: Fixed a potential buffer overflow in closefs().
(bsc#918346)

Additionally, badblocks was enhanced to work with very large partitions. (bsc#932539)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

To install this SUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product :

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP3 :

zypper in -t patch sdksp3-e2fsprogs=10815

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 for VMware :

zypper in -t patch slessp3-e2fsprogs=10815

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 :

zypper in -t patch slessp3-e2fsprogs=10815

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP3 :

zypper in -t patch sledsp3-e2fsprogs=10815

To bring your system up-to-date, use 'zypper patch'.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 85375

File Name: suse_SU-2015-1364-1.nasl

Version: 2.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 8/13/2015

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, 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: 3.4

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:e2fsprogs, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libblkid1, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libcom_err2, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libext2fs2, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libuuid-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libuuid1, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:uuid-runtime, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:11

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/7/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/17/2015

Reference Information

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

BID: 72520, 72709

Detections

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