CVE-2007-5497: EXT2 Filesystems Utilities e2fsprogs

Medium severity, CVSS 5.8. EPSS: 4.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Multiple integer overflows in libext2fs in e2fsprogs before 1.40.3 allow user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted filesystem image.

Affected products

• EXT2 Filesystems Utilities e2fsprogs: up to and including 1.40.2; version 1.02 only; version 1.03 only; version 1.04 only; version 1.05 only; version 1.06 only; …

Published 2007-12-07. Last modified 2026-06-16.