CVE-2015-1572

MediumCVSS 4.6/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 2.0 4.6/10AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Weakness enumeration

CWE-119

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published
Feb 24, 2015
Last modified
Jun 17, 2026
NVD status
Modified

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