{"id":"CVE-2015-1572","details":"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.","modified":"2026-02-04T04:06:37.996243Z","published":"2015-02-24T15:59:05Z","related":["MGASA-2015-0088","SUSE-SU-2015:1341-1","SUSE-SU-2015:1364-1","SUSE-SU-2018:1987-1"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0088.html"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3166"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:067"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:068"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2507-1"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://git.kernel.org/cgit/fs/ext2/e2fsprogs.git/commit/?id=49d0fe2a14f2a23da2fe299643379b8c1d37df73"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201507-22"},{"type":"WEB","url":"http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/150606.html"},{"type":"WEB","url":"http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/150805.html"},{"type":"WEB","url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-06/msg00019.html"},{"type":"WEB","url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-06/msg00006.html"},{"type":"WEB","url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-06/msg00010.html"},{"type":"WEB","url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72709"}],"schema_version":"1.7.3"}