Heap-based buffer overflow in E2fsprogs - CVE-2015-0247
Published: February 17, 2015 / Updated: July 28, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU32443
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2015-0247
CWE-ID: CWE-122
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.
The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error in Heap-based buffer overflow in openfs.c in the libext2fs library in e2fsprogs before 1.42.12. A remote attacker can use crafted block group descriptor data in a filesystem image. to trigger heap-based buffer overflow and execute arbitrary code on the target system.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.
Affected software
E2fsprogs
Amazon Linux AMI
Gentoo Linux
Fedora
e2fsprogs (Alpine package)
e2fsprogs
Amazon Linux AMI
Gentoo Linux
Fedora
e2fsprogs (Alpine package)
e2fsprogs
How to mitigate CVE-2015-0247
Update to version 1.42.12.
E2fsprogs - update to 1.42.12
e2fsprogs (Alpine package) - update to 1.42.7-r1
e2fsprogs - update to 1.42.12-1.fc21
e2fsprogs (Alpine package) - update to 1.42.7-r1
e2fsprogs - update to 1.42.12-1.fc21
External 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
- 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
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3166
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:045
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:067
- http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2015-002.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/534633/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72520
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2507-1
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1187032
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/100740
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-06