vulnerability

Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2019-5188: Security patch for e2fsprogs (ALAS-2020-1509)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:M/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Jan 8, 2020
Added
Oct 28, 2020
Modified
Jan 28, 2025

Description

A code execution vulnerability exists in the directory rehashing functionality of E2fsprogs e2fsck 1.45.4. A specially crafted ext4 directory can cause an out-of-bounds write on the stack, resulting in code execution. An attacker can corrupt a partition to trigger this vulnerability.

Solution(s)

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