Gentoo: GLSA-201507-22 Normal: e2fsprogs Heap Overflow Exploit
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July 23, 2015
A heap-based buffer overflow in e2fsprogs could result in execution of arbitrary code.
Summary
e2fsprogs has a heap-based buffer overflow in closefs.c in the libext2fs library.
Resolution
All e2fsprogs users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=sys-fs/e2fsprogs-1.42.13"
References
[ 1 ] CVE-2015-1572 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2015-1572
Availability
This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at
the Gentoo Security Website:
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201507-22
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Concerns
Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users' machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.
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Severity: Normal
Title: e2fsprogs: Arbitrary code execution
Date: July 23, 2015
Bugs: #540536
ID: 201507-22
Background
e2fsprogs is a set of utilities for maintaining the ext2, ext3 and ext4
file systems.
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Affected Packages
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 sys-fs/e2fsprogs < 1.42.13 >= 1.42.13
Impact
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A local attacker could execute arbitrary code via a specially crafted
block group descriptor.
Workaround
There is no known workaround at this time.
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