CVE-2015-1572 Information

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.

Reference

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