File _patchinfo of Package patchinfo.31321
<patchinfo incident="31321">
<issue tracker="cve" id="2015-4646"/>
<issue tracker="cve" id="2015-4645"/>
<issue tracker="cve" id="2021-41072"/>
<issue tracker="cve" id="2021-40153"/>
<issue tracker="bnc" id="1189936">VUL-0: CVE-2021-40153: squashfs: unvalidated filepaths allow writing outside of destination</issue>
<issue tracker="bnc" id="1190531">VUL-0: CVE-2021-41072: squashfs: unvalidated symlinks allow writing outside of destination</issue>
<issue tracker="bnc" id="935380">VUL-1: CVE-2015-4645,CVE-2015-4646: squashfs: Multiple stack overflows in squashfs-tools</issue>
<packager>duwe</packager>
<rating>important</rating>
<category>security</category>
<summary>Security update for squashfs</summary>
<description>This update for squashfs fixes the following issues:
- CVE-2015-4645,CVE-2015-4646: Multiple buffer overflows fixed in squashfs-tools (bsc#935380)
- CVE-2021-40153: Fixed an issue where an attacker might have been able to write a file outside of destination (bsc#1189936)
- CVE-2021-41072: Fixed an issue where an attacker might have been
able to write a file outside the destination directory via a
symlink (bsc#1190531).
update to 4.6.1:
* Race condition which can cause corruption of the "fragment
table" fixed. This is a regression introduced in August 2022,
and it has been seen when tailend packing is used (-tailends option).
* Fix build failure when the tools are being built without
extended attribute (XATTRs) support.
* Fix XATTR error message when an unrecognised prefix is
found
* Fix incorrect free of pointer when an unrecognised XATTR
prefix is found.
* Major improvements in extended attribute handling,
pseudo file handling, and miscellaneous new options and
improvements
* Extended attribute handling improved in Mksquashfs and
Sqfstar
* New Pseudo file xattr definition to add extended
attributes to files.
* New xattrs-add Action to add extended attributes to files
* Extended attribute handling improved in Unsquashfs
* Other major improvements
* Unsquashfs can now output Pseudo files to standard out.
* Mksquashfs can now input Pseudo files from standard in.
* Squashfs filesystems can now be converted (different
block size compression etc) without unpacking to an
intermediate filesystem or mounting, by piping the output of
Unsquashfs to Mksquashfs.
* Pseudo files are now supported by Sqfstar.
* "Non-anchored" excludes are now supported by Unsquashfs.
update to 4.5.1 (bsc#1190531, CVE-2021-41072):
* This release adds Manpages for Mksquashfs(1), Unsquashfs(1),
Sqfstar(1) and Sqfscat(1).
* The -help text output from the utilities has been improved
and extended as well (but the Manpages are now more
comprehensive).
* CVE-2021-41072 which is a writing outside of destination
exploit, has been fixed.
* The number of hard-links in the filesystem is now also
displayed by Mksquashfs in the output summary.
* The number of hard-links written by Unsquashfs is now
also displayed in the output summary.
* Unsquashfs will now write to a pre-existing destination
directory, rather than aborting.
* Unsquashfs now allows "." to used as the destination, to
extract to the current directory.
* The Unsquashfs progress bar now tracks empty files and
hardlinks, in addition to data blocks.
* -no-hardlinks option has been implemented for Sqfstar.
* More sanity checking for "corrupted" filesystems, including
checks for multiply linked directories and directory loops.
* Options that may cause filesystems to be unmountable have
been moved into a new "experts" category in the Mksquashfs
help text (and Manpage).
* Maximum cpiostyle filename limited to PATH_MAX. This
prevents attempts to overflow the stack, or cause system
calls to fail with a too long pathname.
* Don't always use "max open file limit" when calculating
length of queues, as a very large file limit can cause
Unsquashfs to abort. Instead use the smaller of max open
file limit and cache size.
* Fix Mksquashfs silently ignoring Pseudo file definitions
when appending.
* Don't abort if no XATTR support has been built in, and
there's XATTRs in the filesystem. This is a regression
introduced in 2019 in Version 4.4.
* Fix duplicate check when the last file block is sparse.
update to 4.5:
* Mksquashfs now supports "Actions".
* New sqfstar command which will create a Squashfs image from a tar archive.
* Tar style handling of source pathnames in Mksquashfs.
* Cpio style handling of source pathnames in Mksquashfs.
* New option to throttle the amount of CPU and I/O.
* Mksquashfs now allows no source directory to be specified.
* New Pseudo file "R" definition which allows a Regular file
o be created with data stored within the Pseudo file.
* Symbolic links are now followed in extract files
* Unsquashfs now supports "exclude" files.
* Max depth traversal option added.
* Unsquashfs can now output a "Pseudo file" representing the
input Squashfs filesystem.
* New -one-file-system option in Mksquashfs.
* New -no-hardlinks option in Mksquashfs.
* Exit code in Unsquashfs changed to distinguish between
non-fatal errors (exit 2), and fatal errors (exit 1).
* Xattr id count added in Unsquashfs "-stat" output.
* Unsquashfs "write outside directory" exploit fixed.
* Error handling in Unsquashfs writer thread fixed.
* Fix failure to truncate destination if appending aborted.
* Prevent Mksquashfs reading the destination file.
</description>
</patchinfo>