Bug 37743 – e2fsprogs: Buffer overflow (ES 3.2)

Bug 37743 - e2fsprogs: Buffer overflow (ES 3.2)


Summary:	e2fsprogs: Buffer overflow (ES 3.2)

Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX

Product:	UCS
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Security updates
Version:	UCS 4.0
Hardware:	Other Linux

Importance:	P4 normal (vote)
Target Milestone:	UCS 3.2-x-errata
Assigned To:	UCS maintainers
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Blocks:	37744
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Reported:	2015-02-10 07:32 CET by Moritz Muehlenhoff
Modified:	2019-04-11 19:24 CEST (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Max CVSS v3 score:	4.6 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

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Description Moritz Muehlenhoff

2015-02-10 07:32:31 CET

CVE-2015-0247

A buffer overflow in processing malformed ext2 filesystems might result in the execution of arbitrary code.

This has low impact; exploiting it would require a significant amount of social engineering.

Comment 1 Arvid Requate

2015-02-23 14:55:32 CET

CVE-2015-0247: potential buffer overflow in closefs()  (incomplete fix for above)

Comment 2 Arvid Requate

2015-02-24 18:59:03 CET

This should have been:

CVE-2015-1572: incomplete fix for CVE-2015-0247

Comment 3 Arvid Requate

2015-05-06 17:20:42 CEST

Fixed in upstream Debian package version 1.41.12-4+deb6u2