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EulerOS 2.0 SP1 : e2fsprogs (EulerOS-SA-2016-1038)
medium Nessus Plugin ID 99801
Synopsis
The remote EulerOS host is missing multiple security updates.Description
According to the versions of the e2fsprogs packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :- The e2fsprogs package contains a number of utilities for creating, checking, modifying, and correcting any inconsistencies in second, third and fourth extended (ext2/ext3/ext4) filesystems. E2fsprogs contains e2fsck (used to repair filesystem inconsistencies after an unclean shutdown), mke2fs (used to initialize a partition to contain an empty ext2 filesystem), debugfs (used to examine the internal structure of a filesystem, to manually repair a corrupted filesystem, or to create test cases for e2fsck), tune2fs (used to modify filesystem parameters), and most of the other core ext2fs filesystem utilities.
- You should install the e2fsprogs package if you need to manage the performance of an ext2, ext3, or ext4 filesystem.
- Security Fix(es)
- Heap-based buffer overflow in closefs.c in the libext2fs library in e2fsprogs before 1.42.12 allows local users to execute arbitrary code by causing a crafted block group descriptor to be marked as dirty.
NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2015-0247.(CVE-2015-1572)
- Heap-based buffer overflow in openfs.c in the libext2fs library in e2fsprogs before 1.42.12 allows local users to execute arbitrary code via crafted block group descriptor data in a filesystem image.(CVE-2015-0247)
Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
Solution
Update the affected e2fsprogs packages.See Also
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 99801
File Name: EulerOS_SA-2016-1038.nasl
Version: 1.14
Type: Local
Family: Huawei Local Security Checks
Published: 5/1/2017
Updated: 12/22/2025
Supported Sensors: Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Medium
Score: 4.9
Percentile: 57.15
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
CVSS Score Source: CVE-2015-1572
Vulnerability Information
CPE: cpe:/o:huawei:euleros:2.0, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:e2fsprogs, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:e2fsprogs-devel, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:e2fsprogs-libs, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:libcom_err, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:libcom_err-devel, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:libss
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/EulerOS/release, Host/EulerOS/rpm-list, Host/EulerOS/sp
Excluded KB Items: Host/EulerOS/uvp_version
Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 8/23/2016
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2015-0247, CVE-2015-1572