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Fedora 30 : e2fsprogs (2020-01ed02451f)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 133420

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Fix a potential out of bounds write when checking a maliciously corrupted file system. This is probably not exploitable on 64-bit platforms, but may be exploitable on 32-bit binaries depending on how the compiler lays out the stack variables. (Addresses CVE-2019-5188)

A maliciously corrupted file systems can trigger buffer overruns in the quota code used by e2fsck. (Addresses CVE-2019-5094)

Fix potential use after free in calculate_tree()

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Solution

Update the affected e2fsprogs package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2020-01ed02451f

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 133420

File Name: fedora_2020-01ed02451f.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/3/2020

Updated: 3/28/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-5094

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.7

Temporal Score: 6

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-5188

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:e2fsprogs, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:30

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/2/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/24/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-5094, CVE-2019-5188