openSUSE Security Update: Security update for dosfstools ______________________________________________________________________________
Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2016:1461-1 Rating: moderate References: #912607 #980364 #980377 Cross-References: CVE-2015-8872 CVE-2016-4804 Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 42.1 openSUSE 13.2 ______________________________________________________________________________
An update that solves two vulnerabilities and has one errata is now available.
Description:
This update for dosfstools fixes the following issues:
- fixed buffer overflows based on insufficient size of variable for storing FAT size (CVE-2016-4804, boo#980377) * dosfstools-3.0.26-read-fat-overflow.patch - fixed memory corruption when setting FAT12 entries (CVE-2015-8872, boo#980364) * dosfstools-3.0.26-off-by-2.patch
- Fix attempt to rename root dir in fsck due to uninitialized fields [boo#912607]
- Drop gpg-offline build-time requirement; this is now handled by the local source validator
Patch Instructions:
To install this openSUSE Security Update use YaST online_update. Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:
- openSUSE Leap 42.1:
zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2016-671=1
- openSUSE 13.2:
zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2016-671=1
To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch".
Package List:
- openSUSE Leap 42.1 (i586 x86_64):
dosfstools-3.0.26-6.1 dosfstools-debuginfo-3.0.26-6.1 dosfstools-debugsource-3.0.26-6.1
- openSUSE 13.2 (i586 x86_64):
dosfstools-3.0.26-3.8.1 dosfstools-debuginfo-3.0.26-3.8.1 dosfstools-debugsource-3.0.26-3.8.1
References:
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-8872.html https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-4804.html https://bugzilla.suse.com/912607 https://bugzilla.suse.com/980364 https://bugzilla.suse.com/980377