e2fsprogs: Arbitrary code execution

Background e2fsprogs is a set of utilities for maintaining the ext2, ext3 and ext4 file systems. Description e2fsprogs has a heap-based buffer overflow in closefs.c in the libext2fs library. Impact A local attacker could execute arbitrary code via a specially crafted block group descriptor...

DEBIAN-CVE-2015-1572

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...