CVE-2015-1572
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
4.6
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.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
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OS impact
SUSE Affected 1 release
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| — | Affected | — |
Ubuntu Affected 4 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| 14.10 | Affected | — |
| 14.04 | Affected | — |
| 12.04 | Affected | — |
| 10.04 | Affected | — |
Debian Mixed 6 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| trixie | Fixed | 1.42.12-1.1 |
| sid | Fixed | 1.42.12-1.1 |
| forky | Fixed | 1.42.12-1.1 |
| bullseye | Fixed | 1.42.12-1.1 |
| bookworm | Fixed | 1.42.12-1.1 |
| 7.0 | Affected | — |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| e2fsprogs_project | e2fsprogs | {"endIncluding":"1.42.11"} | |
References
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-1572.html
- http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0088.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/150606.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/150805.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-06/msg00019.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-06/msg00006.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-06/msg00010.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3166
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:067
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:068
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72709
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2507-1
- https://git.kernel.org/cgit/fs/ext2/e2fsprogs.git/commit/?id=49d0fe2a14f2a23da2fe299643379b8c1d37df73
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201507-22
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-1572
CWEs
CWE-119
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.