CVEvulnerability

CVE-2015-7312

4.4 MEDIUM Published 2015-11-16 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2015-11-16
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.4 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-362, CWE-416

Description

Multiple race conditions in the Advanced Union Filesystem (aufs) aufs3-mmap.patch and aufs4-mmap.patch patches for the Linux kernel 3.x and 4.x allow local users to cause a denial of service (use-after-free and BUG) or possibly gain privileges via a (1) madvise or (2) msync system call, related to mm/madvise.c and mm/msync.c.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (>= 3.0.0 <= 3.19.8) • linux linux kernel (>= 4.0.0 <= 4.20.15) • canonical ubuntu linux 14.04 • debian debian linux 8.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization weakness
  • CWE-416 Use After Free weakness

References