Out-of-Bounds Affecting tytso/e2fsprogs package, versions [,1.43.3)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (13th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TYTSOE2FSPROGS-2372024
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed24 Feb 2015
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 24 Feb 2015

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

How to fix?

Upgrade tytso/e2fsprogs to version 1.43.3 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds. 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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