e2fsprogs: Arbitrary code execution A heap-based buffer overflow in e2fsprogs could result in execution of arbitrary code. e2fsprogs 2015-07-23 2015-07-23 540536 local 1.42.13 1.42.13

e2fsprogs is a set of utilities for maintaining the ext2, ext3 and ext4 file systems.

e2fsprogs has a heap-based buffer overflow in closefs.c in the libext2fs library.

A local attacker could execute arbitrary code via a specially crafted block group descriptor.

There is no known workaround at this time.

All e2fsprogs users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=sys-fs/e2fsprogs-1.42.13" CVE-2015-1572 Zlogene Zlogene