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CVE-2015-1572

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CVE-2015-1572

Published: Feb 24, 2015

Modified: Aug 6, 2024

PUBLISHED

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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References

72709
vdb-entry
x_refsource_BID
FEDORA-2015-2511
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_FEDORA
DSA-3166
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_DEBIAN
MDVSA-2015:068
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_MANDRIVA
openSUSE-SU-2015:1006
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_SUSE
GLSA-201507-22
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_GENTOO
FEDORA-2015-2516
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_FEDORA
USN-2507-1
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_UBUNTU
openSUSE-SU-2015:1002
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_SUSE
MDVSA-2015:067
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_MANDRIVA
SUSE-SU-2015:1103
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_SUSE

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