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CVE-2015-0247

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.6 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2015-02-17 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in openfs.c in the libext2fs library in e2fsprogs before 1.42.12 allows local users to execute arbitrary code via crafted block group descriptor data in a filesystem image.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 10.04, 12.04, 14.04, 14.10
• Debian Linux: 7.0
• E2Fsprogs Project E2Fsprogs: through 1.42.11
• Fedoraproject Fedora: 20, 21

References

• http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0061.html
• http://git.kernel.org/cgit/fs/ext2/e2fsprogs.git/commit/?id=f66e6ce4
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-February/149434.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/msg00010.html
• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/130283/e2fsprogs-Input-Sanitization.html
• http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3166
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:045
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:067
• http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2015-002.html

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