CVE-2015-0247
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.
- EPSS
- 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 59% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-119
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- canonical:ubuntu_linux
- debian:debian_linux
- e2fsprogs_project:e2fsprogs
- fedoraproject:fedora
References
- 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