CVE-2015-1572
4.6 Medium
CVSS2
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
9.4 High
AI Score
Confidence
High
0.001 Low
EPSS
Percentile
20.2%
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.
Affected configurations
References
advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0088.html
lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/150606.html
lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/150805.html
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-06/msg00019.html
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-06/msg00006.html
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-06/msg00010.html
www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3166
www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:067
www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:068
www.securityfocus.com/bid/72709
www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2507-1
git.kernel.org/cgit/fs/ext2/e2fsprogs.git/commit/?id=49d0fe2a14f2a23da2fe299643379b8c1d37df73
security.gentoo.org/glsa/201507-22
Related
4.6 Medium
CVSS2
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
9.4 High
AI Score
Confidence
High
0.001 Low
EPSS
Percentile
20.2%