CVE-2015-1572

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.

References

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201507-22

https://git.kernel.org/cgit/fs/ext2/e2fsprogs.git/commit/?id=49d0fe2a14f2a23da2fe299643379b8c1d37df73

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2507-1

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72709

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:068

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:067

http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3166

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-06/msg00010.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-06/msg00006.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-06/msg00019.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/150805.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/150606.html

http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0088.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3