CVE-2015-1572 (GCVE-0-2015-1572)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2015-02-24 15:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 04:47
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
References
URL Tags
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Date Public
2015-02-21 00:00
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        "vulnStatus": "Modified",
        "weaknesses": [
          {
            "description": [
              {
                "lang": "en",
                "value": "CWE-119"
              }
            ],
            "source": "nvd@nist.gov",
            "type": "Primary"
          }
        ]
      }
    },
    "redhat_vex": {
      "aggregate_severity": "Low",
      "current_release_date": "2025-11-21T12:21:47+00:00",
      "cve": "CVE-2015-1572",
      "id": "CVE-2015-1572",
      "initial_release_date": "2015-02-11T00:00:00+00:00",
      "product_status:known_affected": "17",
      "product_status:known_not_affected": "1",
      "source": "Red Hat CSAF VEX",
      "status": "final",
      "title": "e2fsprogs: potential buffer overflow in closefs() (incomplete CVE-2015-0247 fix)",
      "url": "https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2015/cve-2015-1572.json",
      "version": "3"
    }
  }
}



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