Summary

e2fsprogs is vulnerable to memory corruption due to an out-of-bounds access issue when running the e2fsck utility. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by supplying a system with a maliciously crafted filesystem image.

Products Affected

• Brocade GEN 7 platforms (G720, G730, X7-4, X7-8 and 7850) operating with Brocade Fabric OS versions 9.0 through 9.2.0b1 and 9.2.1 through 9.2.1a
• Brocade GEN 6 platforms (G610, G620, G630, X6-4, X6-8 and 7810) operating with Brocade Fabric OS versions before 9.2.0c and 9.2.1 through 9.2.1a
• Brocade ASCG versions before 3.0

Products Not Affected

• Brocade GEN 5 platforms (6505, 6510, 6520, 8510 and 7840) are not affected by this vulnerability
  [VEX Justification: Component_not_present]
• Brocade SANnav is not affected by this vulnerability
  [VEX Justification: Vulnerable_code_not_present] 

Solution

• Security update provided in Brocade Fabric OS versions 9.2.0c, 9.2.1a1 and 9.2.2
• Security update provided in Brocade ASCG version 3.0

Revision History

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