e2fsprogs: Utilities for the Second Extended File System
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File: e2fsprogs-1.38-25.9.ppc.rpm
Patchrpm: e2fsprogs-1.38-25.9.ppc.patch.rpm
Version: 1.38-25.9
Size: 601 kB
Patchsize: 290 kB
Date: Thu 26 Oct 2006 2:45:13 CEST
Source: e2fsprogs-1.38-25.9.src.rpm
Security: No
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Description: The libuuid library in e2fsprogs has no locking mechanism for
the UUID generating function uuid_generate_time. It is possible
to get duplicate UUIDs. This patch provides locking mechanisms 
which guarantees the uniqueness of the UUIDs.

If an unknown filesystem is exists on a partition, a bug in fsck leads to a
bogus detection of the filesystem, while it should not have detected it at all.
This will result in fsck ignoring the -t option and trying to call a non
existing fsck.type checking tool. The correct behaviour is to get the
filesystem type from the -t option if it could not be automatically determined.

The patch also fixes a buffer overflow in mklost+found and
an issue with debugfs where an endless recursive loop is caused if 
there are symlinks in /dev.