5.8 Medium
CVSS2
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
0.065 Low
EPSS
Percentile
93.7%
CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2008:0003-05
The e2fsprogs packages contain a number of utilities for creating,
checking, modifying, and correcting any inconsistencies in second and third
extended (ext2/ext3) file systems.
Multiple integer overflow flaws were found in the way e2fsprogs processes
file system content. If a victim opens a carefully crafted file system with
a program using e2fsprogs, it may be possible to execute arbitrary code
with the permissions of the victim. It may be possible to leverage this
flaw in a virtualized environment to gain access to other virtualized
hosts. (CVE-2007-5497)
Red Hat would like to thank Rafal Wojtczuk of McAfee Avert Research for
responsibly disclosing these issues.
Users of e2fsprogs are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which
contain a backported patch to resolve these issues.
Merged security bulletin from advisories:
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2008-January/076745.html
Affected packages:
e2fsprogs
e2fsprogs-devel
OS | Version | Architecture | Package | Version | Filename |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
CentOS | 2 | i386 | e2fsprogs | < 1.26-1.73 | e2fsprogs-1.26-1.73.i386.rpm |
CentOS | 2 | i386 | e2fsprogs-devel | < 1.26-1.73 | e2fsprogs-devel-1.26-1.73.i386.rpm |