CVE-2015-0247
MEDIUM severity · CVSS 4.6 · Memory corruption
4.6CVSS MEDIUM
Summary
Heap-based buffer overflow in openfs.c in the libext2fs library in e2fsprogs before 1.42.12 allows local users to execute arbitrary code via crafted block group descriptor data in a filesystem image.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorLocal
Attack complexityLow
Privileges required—
User interaction—
Confidentiality impact—
Integrity impact—
Availability impact—
Exploit probability (EPSS)1%
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix in your normal patch cycle. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0061.html
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/fs/ext2/e2fsprogs.git/commit/?id=f66e6ce4
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-February/149434.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/150606.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/150805.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-06/msg00019.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-06/msg00010.html
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/130283/e2fsprogs-Input-Sanitization.html