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    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.

    Published:Feb 11, 2015
    Last Modified:Apr 12, 2025
    EPS:Feb 24, 2015
    EPSS Score:0.0025
    CVSS Score:4.6

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Canonical
    Product
    Ubuntu Linux
    Vendor
    Debian
    Product
    Debian Linux
    Vendor
    E2fsprogs Project
    Product
    E2fsprogs

    Exploits

    No exploit reference

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    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
    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

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