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.
                
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 MITRE
                        MITRE
                    Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: 2015-02-24T15:00:00
Updated: 2024-08-06T04:47:16.926Z
Reserved: 2015-02-10T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2015-1572
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                        Vulnrichment
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 NVD
                        NVD
                    Status : Deferred
Published: 2015-02-24T15:59:05.660
Modified: 2025-04-12T10:46:40.837
Link: CVE-2015-1572
 Redhat
                        Redhat