RHBA-2018:1754 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated e2fsprogs packages that fix one bug are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 Extended Update Support.

Description

The e2fsprogs packages provide a number of utilities for creating, checking, modifying, and correcting the ext2, ext3, and ext4 file systems.

This update fixes the following bug:

• Previously, the resize2fs utility became unresponsive when resizing a file system that contained more than 16TB of data. This happened due to a 32-bit integer overflow in resize2fs. With this update, the overflow has been fixed, and the described problem no longer occurs. (BZ#1562018)

Users of e2fsprogs are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix this bug.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 7.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 7.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 7.4 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 7.4 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 7.4 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 7.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node 7.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.4 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.4 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1562018 - original resize2fs command hang on RHEL7.4 [rhel-7.4.z]

CVEs

(none)

References

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