CVEvulnerability
CVE-2015-8746
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2016-05-02
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Description
fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c in the NFS client in the Linux kernel before 4.2.2 does not properly initialize memory for migration recovery operations, which allows remote NFS servers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and panic) via crafted network traffic.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (<= 4.2.1)
References
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=18e3b739fdc826481c6a1335ce0c5b19b3d415da git.kernel.org
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2574.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2584.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.2.2 www.kernel.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/05/9 www.openwall.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034594 www.securitytracker.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1295802 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/18e3b739fdc826481c6a1335ce0c5b19b3d415da Vendor Advisory
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=18e3b739fdc826481c6a1335ce0c5b19b3d415da git.kernel.org
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2574.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2584.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.2.2 www.kernel.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/05/9 www.openwall.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034594 www.securitytracker.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1295802 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/18e3b739fdc826481c6a1335ce0c5b19b3d415da Vendor Advisory