RHSA-2020:1913: Red Hat Security Advisory: e2fsprogs security, bug fix, and enhancement update

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. Related CVEs:
• CVE-2019-5094: e2fsprogs: Crafted ext4 partition leads to out-of-bounds write
• CVE-2019-5188: e2fsprogs: Out-of-bounds write in e2fsck/rehash.c