DEBIAN-CVE-2015-1572

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    DEBIAN-CVE-2015-1572

    Published: 24 Feb 2015Last Modified: 9 Sept 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2015-1572

    Summary:

    Details: 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-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-1572

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: e2fsprogs

    Purl: pkg:deb/debian/e2fsprogs?arch=source&distro=bookworm

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -1.42.12-1.1

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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