Re: [suse-security] e2fsprogs-1.28 could corrupt directories

28 Nov 2002


      On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, Richard Ems wrote:
...
This could be slightly off-topic, but isn't data corruption security
related?
SuSE 8.1 was delivered with e2fsprogs-1.28, which has a "fencepost
error" (???) which could cause directory corruption.
According to the maintainer of our e2fsprogs package, this referes to the
htree (hash tree) stuff in e2fsprogs which is *not* enabled in
SuSEs version of e2fsprogs.

HTH

best regards,
Rainer Link
(SuSE Labs)

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