What is CVE-2015-1572?

CVE-2015-1572 is a vulnerability in E2fsprogs Project, classified under Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer. Published 2015-02-24.

Is CVE-2015-1572 known to be exploited?

1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Buffer overflow in E2fsprogs Project

CVE-2015-1572

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.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

Published 2015-02-24 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v2 metric

CVSS v2 base score 4.6 (Medium). Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.006 (48.3th percentile), scored 2026-11-01.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 48th percentile — 48.3% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.006 · newest: 0.006 · change: 0.000

Affected products

E2fsprogs Project
Canonical Ubuntu Linux — versions 10.04, 12.04, 14.04
Debian Linux — versions 7.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

Public proof-of-concept exploits

ARPSyndicate/cvemon

References

www.securityfocus.com/bid/72709 (vdb-entry)
lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/150606.html (vendor-advisory)
www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3166 (vendor-advisory)
www.mandriva.com/security/advisories (vendor-advisory)
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-06/msg00010.html (vendor-advisory)
git.kernel.org/cgit/fs/ext2/e2fsprogs.git/commit/ (Vendor Advisory)
security.gentoo.org/glsa/201507-22 (vendor-advisory)
lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/150805.html (vendor-advisory)
www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2507-1 (vendor-advisory)
advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0088.html

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2015-1572?: CVE-2015-1572 is a vulnerability in E2fsprogs Project, classified under Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer. Published 2015-02-24.
Is CVE-2015-1572 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.