CVE-2015-1572 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2015-1572

Heap-based buffer overflow in closefs.c in the libext2fs library in...

Vulnerability 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.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

Affected Vendor

e2fsprogs project

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Affected Software

e2fsprogs, debian linux, ubuntu linux
Vulnerable Versions:
0, 7.0, 10.04, 12.04, 14.04, 14.10

Timeline

Official Publish: February 24th, 2015
Last Modified: August 6th, 2024
Added to House: July 19th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.