PT-2015-4541 · E2Fsprogs+3 · E2Fsprogs+3

Jose Duart · Published 2015-02-11 · Updated 2018-10-09 · CVE-2015-0247

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.6

Medium

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions e2fsprogs versions prior to 1.42.12

Description The issue is related to a heap-based buffer overflow in the libext2fs library, specifically in the openfs.c file. This allows local users to execute arbitrary code via crafted block group descriptor data in a filesystem image.

Recommendations For versions prior to 1.42.12, update to version 1.42.12 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2015-2007

CVE-2015-0247

DLA-153-1

DSA-3166-1

MGASA-2015-0061

OPENSUSE-SU-2018_2133-1

SUSE-SU-2015:1341-1

SUSE-SU-2015:1364-1

SUSE-SU-2015_1341-1

SUSE-SU-2015_1364-1

SUSE-SU-2018:1987-1

SUSE-SU-2018_1987-1

USN-2507-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Suse

Ubuntu

E2Fsprogs

References · 59

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-06/msg00019.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2015-0247 · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0061.html · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-2507-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2507-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/e2fsprogs · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-1572 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DSA-3166-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-0247 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2015-0061 · Vendor Advisory
• http://ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2507-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-0247 · Vendor Advisory
• http://mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:067 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-1572 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2015-0247 · Vendor Advisory