Fedora 20 Security Update: e2fsprogs-1.42.12-2.fc20

Resolved Bugs
963283 – e2fsck.conf makes e2fsck ignore check intervals
1192861 – e2fsck seg faults on 6TB HDD
1187032 – CVE-2015-0247 e2fsprogs: ext2fs_open2() missing first_meta_bg boundary check leading to heap buffer overflow (oCERT-015-002)
1189834 – CVE-2015-0247 e2fsprogs: ext2fs_open2() missing first_meta_bg boundary check leading to heap buffer overflow (oCERT-015-002) [fedora-all]<br
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.
New upstream release
Security fix for CVE-2015-0247

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