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CVE-2015-1572 Detail

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.


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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0088.html CVE, MITRE
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/150606.html CVE, MITRE
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/150805.html CVE, MITRE
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-06/msg00019.html CVE, MITRE
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-06/msg00006.html CVE, MITRE
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-06/msg00010.html CVE, MITRE
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3166 CVE, MITRE
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:067 CVE, MITRE
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:068 CVE, MITRE
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72709 CVE, MITRE
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2507-1 CVE, MITRE
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/fs/ext2/e2fsprogs.git/commit/?id=49d0fe2a14f2a23da2fe299643379b8c1d37df73 CVE, MITRE Vendor Advisory 
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201507-22 CVE, MITRE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2015-1572
NVD Published Date:
02/24/2015
NVD Last Modified:
04/12/2025
Source:
MITRE