glsa-201507-22.xml


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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201507-22">
  <title>e2fsprogs: Arbitrary code execution</title>
  <synopsis>A heap-based buffer overflow in e2fsprogs could result in execution
    of arbitrary code.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">e2fsprogs</product>
  <announced>2015-07-23</announced>
  <revised count="1">2015-07-23</revised>
  <bug>540536</bug>
  <access>local</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="sys-fs/e2fsprogs" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">1.42.13</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">1.42.13</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>e2fsprogs is a set of utilities for maintaining the ext2, ext3 and ext4
      file systems.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>e2fsprogs has a heap-based buffer overflow in closefs.c in the libext2fs
      library.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>A local attacker could execute arbitrary code via a specially crafted
      block group descriptor.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>All e2fsprogs users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=sys-fs/e2fsprogs-1.42.13"
    </code>
    
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2015-1572">CVE-2015-1572</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2015-07-17T11:07:25Z">Zlogene</metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2015-07-23T15:35:12Z">Zlogene</metadata>
</glsa>