CVE-2015-0247 Memory corruption in n/a

What is CVE-2015-0247?

CVE-2015-0247 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 17 Feb 2015. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

Heap-based buffer overflow in openfs.c in the libext2fs library in e2fsprogs before 1.42.12 allows local users to execute arbitrary code via crafted block group descriptor data in a filesystem image.

Weakness: CWE-119

Which versions are affected by CVE-2015-0247?

It affects 4 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Debian Debian Linux, E2fsprogs Project E2fsprogs, Fedoraproject Fedora.

How do I fix CVE-2015-0247?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2015-0247 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-0247 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Canonical Ubuntu Linux

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• CVE-2019-16928 Exim Out-of-bounds Write Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2018-6789 Exim Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2015-2590 Oracle Java SE and Java SE Embedded Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8

All Canonical Ubuntu Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2015-0247, DLA-153-1, GHSA-33r9-2w5v-33vg, MGASA-2015-0061, UBUNTU-CVE-2015-0247.