CVE-2015-1572: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 4.6. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Heap-based buffer overflow in closefs.c in the libext2fs library in e2fsprogs before 1.42.12 allows local users to execute arbitrary code by causing a crafted block group descriptor to be marked as dirty. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2015-0247.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 10.04 only; version 12.04 only; version 14.04 only; version 14.10 only
• Debian Debian Linux: version 7.0 only
• e2fsprogs Project e2fsprogs: up to and including 1.42.11

Published 2015-02-24. Last modified 2026-06-17.