Out-of-Bounds Affecting e2fsprogs package, versions <1.42.12-1.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (13th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN11-E2FSPROGS-523000
  • published24 Feb 2015
  • disclosed24 Feb 2015

Introduced: 24 Feb 2015

CVE-2015-1572  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:11 e2fsprogs to version 1.42.12-1.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream e2fsprogs package and not the e2fsprogs package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:11 relevant fixed versions and status.

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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