This update for squashfs fixes the following issues:
- CVE-2015-4645,CVE-2015-4646: Multiple buffer overflows fixed in squashfs-tools (bsc#935380)
- CVE-2021-40153: Fixed an issue where an attacker might have been able to write a file outside of destination (bsc#1189936)
- CVE-2021-41072: Fixed an issue where an attacker might have been
able to write a file outside the destination directory via a
symlink (bsc#1190531).
update to 4.6.1:
- Race condition which can cause corruption of the ‘fragment
table’ fixed. This is a regression introduced in August 2022,
and it has been seen when tailend packing is used (-tailends option).
- Fix build failure when the tools are being built without
extended attribute (XATTRs) support.
- Fix XATTR error message when an unrecognised prefix is
found
- Fix incorrect free of pointer when an unrecognised XATTR
prefix is found.
- Major improvements in extended attribute handling,
pseudo file handling, and miscellaneous new options and
improvements
- Extended attribute handling improved in Mksquashfs and
Sqfstar
- New Pseudo file xattr definition to add extended
attributes to files.
- New xattrs-add Action to add extended attributes to files
- Extended attribute handling improved in Unsquashfs
- Other major improvements
- Unsquashfs can now output Pseudo files to standard out.
- Mksquashfs can now input Pseudo files from standard in.
- Squashfs filesystems can now be converted (different
block size compression etc) without unpacking to an
intermediate filesystem or mounting, by piping the output of
Unsquashfs to Mksquashfs.
- Pseudo files are now supported by Sqfstar.
- ‘Non-anchored’ excludes are now supported by Unsquashfs.
update to 4.5.1 (bsc#1190531, CVE-2021-41072):
- This release adds Manpages for Mksquashfs(1), Unsquashfs(1),
Sqfstar(1) and Sqfscat(1).
- The -help text output from the utilities has been improved
and extended as well (but the Manpages are now more
comprehensive).
- CVE-2021-41072 which is a writing outside of destination
exploit, has been fixed.
- The number of hard-links in the filesystem is now also
displayed by Mksquashfs in the output summary.
- The number of hard-links written by Unsquashfs is now
also displayed in the output summary.
- Unsquashfs will now write to a pre-existing destination
directory, rather than aborting.
- Unsquashfs now allows ‘.’ to used as the destination, to
extract to the current directory.
- The Unsquashfs progress bar now tracks empty files and
hardlinks, in addition to data blocks.
- -no-hardlinks option has been implemented for Sqfstar.
- More sanity checking for ‘corrupted’ filesystems, including
checks for multiply linked directories and directory loops.
- Options that may cause filesystems to be unmountable have
been moved into a new ‘experts’ category in the Mksquashfs
help text (and Manpage).
- Maximum cpiostyle filename limited to PATH_MAX. This
prevents attempts to overflow the stack, or cause system
calls to fail with a too long pathname.
- Don’t always use ‘max open file limit’ when calculating
length of queues, as a very large file limit can cause
Unsquashfs to abort. Instead use the smaller of max open
file limit and cache size.
- Fix Mksquashfs silently ignoring Pseudo file definitions
when appending.
- Don’t abort if no XATTR support has been built in, and
there’s XATTRs in the filesystem. This is a regression
introduced in 2019 in Version 4.4.
- Fix duplicate check when the last file block is sparse.
update to 4.5:
- Mksquashfs now supports ‘Actions’.
- New sqfstar command which will create a Squashfs image from a tar archive.
- Tar style handling of source pathnames in Mksquashfs.
- Cpio style handling of source pathnames in Mksquashfs.
- New option to throttle the amount of CPU and I/O.
- Mksquashfs now allows no source directory to be specified.
- New Pseudo file ‘R’ definition which allows a Regular file
o be created with data stored within the Pseudo file.
- Symbolic links are now followed in extract files
- Unsquashfs now supports ‘exclude’ files.
- Max depth traversal option added.
- Unsquashfs can now output a ‘Pseudo file’ representing the
input Squashfs filesystem.
- New -one-file-system option in Mksquashfs.
- New -no-hardlinks option in Mksquashfs.
- Exit code in Unsquashfs changed to distinguish between
non-fatal errors (exit 2), and fatal errors (exit 1).
- Xattr id count added in Unsquashfs ‘-stat’ output.
- Unsquashfs ‘write outside directory’ exploit fixed.
- Error handling in Unsquashfs writer thread fixed.
- Fix failure to truncate destination if appending aborted.
- Prevent Mksquashfs reading the destination file.