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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 …

Impact

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

VendorProductAffected versions
E2fsprogs ProjectE2fsprogs
through 1.42.11
DebianDebian Linux
Version 7.0
CanonicalUbuntu Linux
Versions 10.04, 12.04, 14.04, 14.10

Weakness classification

CWE-119

References