Security Advisory
CVE-2015-1572
4.6
Vulnerability 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.
Published Date
February 24, 2015
Official Source
NIST NVD Advisory