RHSA-2020:1913 — Security Advisory

An update for e2fsprogs is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

The e2fsprogs packages provide a number of utilities for creating, checking, modifying, and correcting the ext2, ext3, and ext4 file systems.

The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: e2fsprogs (1.45.4). (BZ#1783777)

Security Fix(es):

• e2fsprogs: crafted ext4 partition leads to out-of-bounds write (CVE-2019-5094)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Release Notes linked from the References section.