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Medium ALSA-2022:8361 1 CVE

Moderate: e2fsprogs security update

Published Nov 15, 2022 · Updated Oct 29, 2026

Summary

The e2fsprogs packages provide a number of utilities for creating, checking, modifying, and correcting the ext2, ext3, and ext4 file systems.

Security Fix(es):

* e2fsprogs: out-of-bounds read/write via crafted filesystem (CVE-2022-1304)

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 AlmaLinux Release Notes linked from the References section.

Fixed packages 6

ReleasePackageFixed in
AlmaLinux · 9 e2fsprogs 1.46.5-3.el9
AlmaLinux · 9 e2fsprogs-devel 1.46.5-3.el9
AlmaLinux · 9 e2fsprogs-libs 1.46.5-3.el9
AlmaLinux · 9 libcom_err 1.46.5-3.el9
AlmaLinux · 9 libcom_err-devel 1.46.5-3.el9
AlmaLinux · 9 libss 1.46.5-3.el9

Vulnerabilities 1

References

  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-1304
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2069726
  • advisory
    https://errata.almalinux.org/9/ALSA-2022-8361.html