CVE-2015-1572

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.

Score

CVSS 2.0 4.6 Medium

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2015-02-24

Last modified

2024-08-06

Weaknesses

CWE-119

Affected products

• Ubuntu Linux (Canonical)
• Debian Linux (Debian)
• E2fsprogs (E2fsprogs Project)

References

• http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0088.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/150606.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/150805.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-06/msg00019.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-06/msg00006.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-06/msg00010.html
• http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3166
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:067
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:068
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72709
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2507-1
• https://git.kernel.org/cgit/fs/ext2/e2fsprogs.git/commit/?id=49d0fe2a14f2a23da2fe299643379b8c1d37df73
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201507-22