CVE-2015-1572

Medium

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in closefs.c in the libext2fs library in e2fsprogs before 1.42.12 allows local users to execute arbitrary code by causing a crafted block group descriptor to be marked as dirty. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2015-0247.

SeverityMedium

CVSS4.6

Exploit probability—

Product

E2fsprogs

PublishedFeb 24, 2015

First seenFeb 24, 2015

How to fix

Vendor advisories

security.gentoo.org/glsa/201507-22

Affected products

Product	Affected versions	Fixed in
e2fsprogs_project e2fsprogs	v ≤ 1.42.11	—
debian debian_linux	7.0	—
canonical ubuntu_linux	10.04, 12.04, 14.04, 14.10	—

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