Mageia alert MGASA-2019-0296 (e2fsprogs)

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[updates-announce] MGASA-2019-0296: Updated e2fsprogs packages fix security vulnerability 
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Thu, 17 Oct 2019 00:23:41 +0200
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MGASA-2019-0296 - Updated e2fsprogs packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 16 Oct 2019
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2019-0296.html
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases: 7
CVE: CVE-2019-5094

Description:
Updated e2fsprogs packages fix security vulnerability:

Lilith of Cisco Talos discovered a buffer overflow flaw in the quota code
used by e2fsck from the ext2/ext3/ext4 file system utilities. Running
e2fsck on a malformed file system can result in the execution of arbitrary
code (CVE-2019-5094).

The e2fsprogs package has been updated to version 1.45.4, fixing this issue
and other bugs. See the upstream release notes for details.

References:
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25562
- http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net/e2fsprogs-release.html#1...
- https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4535
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-5094

SRPMS:
- 7/core/e2fsprogs-1.45.4-1.mga7