CVE-2015-5706

 

Published at: - 31-08-2015 12:59

Last modified: - 21-09-2022 08:44

Total changes: - 2

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the path_openat function in fs/namei.c in the Linux kernel 3.x and 4.x before 4.0.4 allows local users to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via O_TMPFILE filesystem operations that leverage a duplicate cleanup operation.

Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS)

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

 

Verification logic

 

Reference

• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1250047
• http://twitter.com/grsecurity/statuses/597127122910490624
• http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=f15133df088ecadd141ea1907f2c96df67c729f0
• [oss-security] 20150801 CVE request: Use-after-free in path lookup in Linux 3.11-4.0 inclusive-Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
• http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.0.4
• https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/f15133df088ecadd141ea1907f2c96df67c729f0
• 76142-Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• DSA-3329-Third Party Advisory
• USN-2681-1-Third Party Advisory
• USN-2680-1-Third Party Advisory
• https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-01-01.html

 

Keywords

NVD

 

CVE-2015-5706

 

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