CVEvulnerability
CVE-2015-5706
4.6 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2015-08-31
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-416
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.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 3.0 <= 3.19.8)
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.0 < 4.0.4)
• canonical ubuntu linux 12.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 14.04
• debian debian linux 7.0
• debian debian linux 8.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-416 Use After Free weakness
References
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=f15133df088ecadd141ea1907f2c96df67c729f0 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://twitter.com/grsecurity/statuses/597127122910490624 Broken Link
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3329 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.0.4 Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/01/5 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76142 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2680-1 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2681-1 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1250047 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/f15133df088ecadd141ea1907f2c96df67c729f0 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-01-01.html Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=f15133df088ecadd141ea1907f2c96df67c729f0 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://twitter.com/grsecurity/statuses/597127122910490624 Broken Link
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3329 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.0.4 Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/01/5 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76142 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2680-1 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2681-1 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1250047 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/f15133df088ecadd141ea1907f2c96df67c729f0 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-01-01.html Patch, Third Party Advisory