Category Archives: Fedora

Fedora – Security Updates

Fedora 22 Security Update: echoping-6.1-0.1.beta.r434svn.fc22

Resolved Bugs
1007031 – echoping segfaults all the time
1032547 – echoping doesn’t seem to work (cannot open shared object file)
705174 – echoping: boundary error in SSL-related functions can lead to buffer overflow [fedora-all]
460557 – echoping : Package and software are in a desolate state<br
Small specfile improvements to confirm to updated packaging guidelines. Thx to mschwendt.
Updated to latest SVN, fixing various bugs.

Fedora 20 Security Update: e2fsprogs-1.42.12-3.fc20

Resolved Bugs
1193945 – CVE-2015-1572 e2fsprogs: potential buffer overflow in closefs() (incomplete CVE-2015-0247 fix)
1193947 – CVE-2015-1572 e2fsprogs: potential buffer overflow in closefs() [fedora-all]
1194063 – [abrt] e2fsprogs: strlen(): dumpe2fs killed by SIGSEGV
1170803 – calls e2fsck on all ext volumes, provides no status indicator, and hangs indefinitely if e2fsck doesn’t exit<br
– 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)