lp:ubuntu/feisty-security/e2fsprogs

Branch merges

Propose for merging

No branches dependent on this one.

Related source package recipes

No recipes using this branch. (?)

Create packaging recipe

Related snap packages

Related bugs

Related blueprints

11. By Kees Cook on 2007-12-07

* SECURITY UPDATE: code execution via possible integer/heap overflows.
* Add debian/patches-applied/01_fix-libext2fs-allocation-overflows.patch
  inline, fixes from upstream.
* References
  CVE-2007-5497

10. By Tollef Fog Heen on 2007-03-28

Merge with Debian, needed for the new nfs-utils.

9. By Tollef Fog Heen on 2007-01-16

Don't install rfc4122 on Ubuntu; it's not in the source package.

8. By Theodore Ts'o on 2006-11-14

* Fix spurious error from e2fsck -c and mke2fs -c caused by the fix
  to #386475.
* Add dirhash signed/unsigned hint to superblock. (Closes: #389772)
* Allow unix_io offsets greater than 2 gigabytes
* Make sure mk_cmds and compile_et work even in strange locales
* Fix type-punning bug which caused dumpe2fs to crash on the Arm platform
  (Closes: #397044)
* Add explanatory message to badblocks that -n and -w are mutually
  exclusive. (Closes: #371869)
* New +dfsg source tarball that has useful documentation REALLY
  removed to satisfy the DFSG License Nazi's. (Closes: #390664)

7. By Theodore Ts'o on 2006-10-22

* Add failsafes against duplicate UUID generation caused by threads
* Fix potential e2fsck -n crash caused by corrupt htrees
* Reorder the library line for static linking, to fix undefined
  references to pthreads on amd64. (Closes: #393680)
* Fix mke2fs's error checking when creating revision 0 filesystems.
  (Closes #392107)

6. By Theodore Ts'o on 2006-05-29

* New upstream version
* Fix debugfs's dump_unused command so it will not core dump on
  filesystems with a 64k blocksize
* Clarified and improved man pages, including spelling errors
  (Closes: #368392, #368393, #368394, #368179)
* New filesystems are now created with directory indexing and
  on-line resizing enabled by default
* Fix previously mangled wording in an older Debian changelog entry
* Fix doc-base pointer to the top-level html file (Closes: #362544, #362970)

5. By Andrew Mitchell on 2006-05-12

Add -output=. to texi2html call to fix FTBFS (Malone: #36925)

4. By Tollef Fog Heen on 2005-08-23

* Merge with Debian. (Ubuntu #13757)
* Remove tests/f_bad_disconnected_inode/image.gz to be able to build the
  package. This will (hopefully) be in the next upstream version and is
  just used for testing.

3. By Matt Zimmerman on 2004-09-19

Remove ext3-add-journal.sh script. It overcomplicates the initrd setup,
and the only problem it solves is to prevent a visible /.journal

2. By Yann Dirson <email address hidden> on 2002-03-21

* Urgency medium since this fixes a RC bug.
* Generate the shlibs file instead of just copying it in place, and make
  it produce deps on "e2fsprogs (>= <current>)" as well, to cope with
  new functions introduced in the libs (Closes: #139274).
* Added a note on this in README.Debian.