On Thu, 17 Nov 2016, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > No, it's not dangerous. It's also fixed in 1.42.13: > > commit fecb231f6fc83cf4b4ddf7ec34ace3723803a499 > Author: Darrick J. Wong <[email protected]> > Date: Fri Nov 7 21:26:14 2014 -0500 > > dumpe2fs: don't crash when the user provides no block device argument > > If the user doesn't provide any arguments, the guard fails to run and > the whole thing segfaults on ext2fs_open2(). Don't do that. > > Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <[email protected]> > Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <[email protected]> > > > If you really care, feel free to grab the e2fsprogs from debian-bacports.
Well, yes, I do care, but backports is for new features, not to fix bugs like this. Would not be possible to fix this in a point release? Thanks.
