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Vulnerability DatabaseCVE-2015-1572

CVE-2015-1572

Published:February 24, 2015

Updated:May 17, 2026

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.

Related Resources (16)

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2507-1

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201507-22

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-1572

https://git.kernel.org/cgit/fs/ext2/e2fsprogs.git/commit/?id=49d0fe2a14f2a23da2fe299643379b8c1d37df73

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-06/msg00006.html

http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0088.html

https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2015-1572

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:068

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/150606.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-06/msg00010.html

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:067

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-06/msg00019.html

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-1572

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72709

http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3166

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/150805.html

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CVSS v3

Base Score:

5.9

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality

LOW

Integrity

LOW

Availability

LOW

CVSS v2

Base Score:

4.6

Access Vector

LOCAL

Access Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

Weakness Type (CWE)

Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

EPSS

Base Score:

0.15