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Red Hat Security Advisory 2024-2437-03
Red Hat Security Advisory 2024-2437-03 - An update for exfatprogs is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.
The following advisory data is extracted from:https://access.redhat.com/security/data/csaf/v2/advisories/2024/rhsa-2024_2437.jsonRed Hat officially shut down their mailing list notifications October 10, 2023. Due to this, Packet Storm has recreated the below data as a reference point to raise awareness. It must be noted that due to an inability to easily track revision updates without crawling Red Hat's archive, these advisories are single notifications and we strongly suggest that you visit the Red Hat provided links to ensure you have the latest information available if the subject matter listed pertains to your environment.- Packet Storm Staff====================================================================Red Hat Security AdvisorySynopsis: Moderate: exfatprogs security updateAdvisory ID: RHSA-2024:2437-03Product: Red Hat Enterprise LinuxAdvisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2437Issue date: 2024-04-30Revision: 03CVE Names: CVE-2023-45897====================================================================Summary: An update for exfatprogs is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.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.Description:The exfatprogs package contains utilities for formatting and repairing exFAT filesystems.Security Fix(es):* exfatprogs: exfatprogs allows out-of-bounds memory access (CVE-2023-45897)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 9.4 Release Notes linked from the References section.Solution:https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258CVEs:CVE-2023-45897References:https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderatehttps://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/9/html/9.4_release_notes/indexhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2246976https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-15865https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-7945
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Ubuntu Security Notice 6970-1 - It was discovered that exfatprogs incorrectly handled certain memory operations. If a user or automated system were tricked into handling specially crafted exfat partitions, a remote attacker could use this issue to cause exfatprogs to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.
CVE-2023-45897: fsck: fix out-of-bounds memory access · exfatprogs/exfatprogs@22d0e43
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