Heap-based Buffer Overflow The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package uuidd  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL6-UUIDD-1339334
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed5 Feb 2015

Introduced: 5 Feb 2015

CVE-2015-0247  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-122  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:6.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream uuidd package and not the uuidd package as distributed by RHEL.

Heap-based buffer overflow in openfs.c in the libext2fs library in e2fsprogs before 1.42.12 allows local users to execute arbitrary code via crafted block group descriptor data in a filesystem image.