| Name | CVE-2015-1572 |
| Description | 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-162-1, DSA-3166-1 |
| Debian Bugs | 778948 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| e2fsprogs (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 1.42.12-2+deb8u3 | fixed |
| stretch (security) | 1.43.4-2+deb9u2 | fixed |
| stretch (lts), stretch | 1.43.4-2+deb9u3 | fixed |
| buster, buster (lts) | 1.44.5-1+deb10u4 | fixed |
| buster (security) | 1.44.5-1+deb10u2 | fixed |
| bullseye | 1.46.2-2 | fixed |
| bullseye (security) | 1.46.2-2+deb11u1 | fixed |
| bookworm | 1.47.0-2 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 1.47.1-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/fs/ext2/e2fsprogs.git/commit/?id=49d0fe2a14f2a23da2fe299643379b8c1d37df73