CVE - CVE-2015-1572

CVE-ID
CVE-2015-1572	Learn more at National Vulnerability Database (NVD) • CVSS Severity Rating • Fix Information • Vulnerable Software Versions • SCAP Mappings • CPE Information
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.
References
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BID:72709 URL:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72709 CONFIRM:http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0088.html CONFIRM:https://git.kernel.org/cgit/fs/ext2/e2fsprogs.git/commit/?id=49d0fe2a14f2a23da2fe299643379b8c1d37df73 DEBIAN:DSA-3166 URL:http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3166 FEDORA:FEDORA-2015-2511 URL:http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/150606.html FEDORA:FEDORA-2015-2516 URL:http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/150805.html GENTOO:GLSA-201507-22 URL:https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201507-22 MANDRIVA:MDVSA-2015:067 URL:~~http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:067~~ (Obsolete source) MANDRIVA:MDVSA-2015:068 URL:~~http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:068~~ (Obsolete source) SUSE:SUSE-SU-2015:1103 URL:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-06/msg00019.html SUSE:openSUSE-SU-2015:1002 URL:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-06/msg00006.html SUSE:openSUSE-SU-2015:1006 URL:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-06/msg00010.html UBUNTU:USN-2507-1 URL:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2507-1
Assigning CNA
MITRE Corporation
Date Record Created
20150210	Disclaimer: The record creation date may reflect when the CVE ID was allocated or reserved, and does not necessarily indicate when this vulnerability was discovered, shared with the affected vendor, publicly disclosed, or updated in CVE.
Phase (Legacy)
Assigned (20150210)
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