Description: Some vulnerabilities have been reported in the libext2fs library of e2fsprogs, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise an application using the library.
The vulnerabilities are caused due to integer overflows, which potentially can be exploited to execute arbitrary code by e.g. tricking a user into processing a specially crafted file system with an application using libext2fs.
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