UBUNTU-CVE-2015-0247

Heap-based buffer overflow in openfs.c in the libext2fs library in e2fsprogs before 1.42.12 allows local users to execute arbitrary code via crafted block group descriptor data in a filesystem image...

e2fsprogs 'lib/ext2fs/openfs.c' local buffer overflow vulnerability

e2fsprogs Ext2 Filesystem Utilities is a set of disk utilities for the EXT2 filesystem. A local buffer overflow vulnerability exists in e2fsprogs 'lib/ext2fs/openfs.c' due to the program's failure to perform sufficient boundary checks on user-supplied data. A local attacker could use this...