USN-2507-1

Jose Duart discovered that e2fsprogs incorrectly handled invalid block group descriptor data. A local attacker could use this issue with a crafted filesystem image to possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2015-0247, CVE-2015-1572)

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:14.04:LTS / e2fsprogs

Package

Name: e2fsprogs
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/e2fsprogs@1.42.9-3ubuntu1.2?arch=source&distro=trusty

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

1.42.9-3ubuntu1.2

Affected versions

1.*

1.42.8-1ubuntu1

1.42.8-1ubuntu2

1.42.8-1ubuntu3

1.42.9-2ubuntu1

1.42.9-3ubuntu1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_version": "2.1-1.42.9-3ubuntu1.2",
            "binary_name": "comerr-dev"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "1.42.9-3ubuntu1.2",
            "binary_name": "e2fsck-static"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "1.42.9-3ubuntu1.2",
            "binary_name": "e2fslibs"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "1.42.9-3ubuntu1.2",
            "binary_name": "e2fslibs-dev"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "1.42.9-3ubuntu1.2",
            "binary_name": "e2fsprogs"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "1.42.9-3ubuntu1.2",
            "binary_name": "libcomerr2"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "1.42.9-3ubuntu1.2",
            "binary_name": "libss2"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "2.0-1.42.9-3ubuntu1.2",
            "binary_name": "ss-dev"
        }
    ],
    "availability": "No subscription required"
}

Database specific

cves_map

{
    "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:14.04:LTS",
    "cves": [
        {
            "severity": [
                {
                    "score": "medium",
                    "type": "Ubuntu"
                }
            ],
            "id": "CVE-2015-0247"
        },
        {
            "severity": [
                {
                    "score": "medium",
                    "type": "Ubuntu"
                }
            ],
            "id": "CVE-2015-1572"
        }
    ]
}