Vulnerability CVE-2015-1572
Published: 2015-02-24

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.

CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
4.6/10
6.4/10
3.9/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
E2fsprogs project -> E2fsprogs 
Debian -> Debian linux 
Canonical -> Ubuntu linux 

 References:
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
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