Advisories

Mandriva Advisories

Package name e2fsprogs Date June 25th, 2007 Advisory ID MDKA-2007:068 Affected versions 2007.1 Synopsis Updated e2fsprogs packages fix memory leak

Problem Description

The libblkid library contained in the libext2fs2 package contains a
serious memory leak which can cause machines being used as NFS servers
to rapidly consume system memory. This update fixes the memory leak.

Updated Packages

Mandriva Linux 2007.1

 30b093dcb4a7d2b5614fda1108271f91  2007.1/i586/e2fsprogs-1.39-5.1mdv2007.1.i586.rpm
 9b332fa339b03bdbebb1ed0365b323f5  2007.1/i586/libext2fs2-1.39-5.1mdv2007.1.i586.rpm
 edb63ea112b8bf4152c125c082e619cf  2007.1/i586/libext2fs2-devel-1.39-5.1mdv2007.1.i586.rpm 
 ac11881a83e6d0ed8d2ca7389519a070  2007.1/SRPMS/e2fsprogs-1.39-5.1mdv2007.1.src.rpm

Mandriva Linux 2007.1/X86_64

 72e14009a7c0e691176effe298743590  2007.1/x86_64/e2fsprogs-1.39-5.1mdv2007.1.x86_64.rpm
 0802ad2f5b75ff84f0c5d9e124c286d5  2007.1/x86_64/lib64ext2fs2-1.39-5.1mdv2007.1.x86_64.rpm
 bae7e25f49b43471c03fe4eddc00ff88  2007.1/x86_64/lib64ext2fs2-devel-1.39-5.1mdv2007.1.x86_64.rpm 
 ac11881a83e6d0ed8d2ca7389519a070  2007.1/SRPMS/e2fsprogs-1.39-5.1mdv2007.1.src.rpm

Upgrade

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Verification

Please verify the update prior to upgrading to ensure the integrity of the downloaded package. You can do this with the command :

                rpm --checksig package.rpm
                

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