CVE-2015-1572

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.6 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2015-02-24 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-119

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.

Affected products

Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 10.04, 12.04, 14.04, 14.10
Debian Linux: 7.0
E2Fsprogs Project E2Fsprogs: through 1.42.11

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

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