ISOMAN

CVE

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.

Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
4.6
Published
Modified
NVD detailAll CVEs

Linked Releases

DistributionReleaseStatusEvidence
Ubuntu14.04.6 amd64 desktopunknownsource
Ubuntu14.04.6 i386 desktopunknownsource
Ubuntu14.04.6 amd64 serverunknownsource
Ubuntu14.04.6 i386 serverunknownsource

References

  1. http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0088.html
  2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/150606.html
  3. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/150805.html
  4. http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-06/msg00019.html
  5. http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-06/msg00006.html
  6. http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-06/msg00010.html
  7. http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3166
  8. http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:067
  9. http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:068
  10. http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72709
  11. http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2507-1
  12. https://git.kernel.org/cgit/fs/ext2/e2fsprogs.git/commit/?id=49d0fe2a14f2a23da2fe299643379b8c1d37df73
  13. https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201507-22
  14. http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0088.html
  15. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/150606.html
  16. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/150805.html
  17. http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-06/msg00019.html
  18. http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-06/msg00006.html
  19. http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-06/msg00010.html
  20. http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3166