CVE-2015-8839
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2016-05-02 10:00
Modified
2024-08-06 08:29
Severity ?
Summary
Multiple race conditions in the ext4 filesystem implementation in the Linux kernel before 4.5 allow local users to cause a denial of service (disk corruption) by writing to a page that is associated with a different user's file after unsynchronized hole punching and page-fault handling.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=ea3d7209ca01da209cda6f0dea8be9cc4b7a933bVendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/01/4Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/85798Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035455Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3005-1Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3006-1Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3007-1Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1842Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2077Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2669Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1323577Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/ea3d7209ca01da209cda6f0dea8be9cc4b7a933bThird Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/06/msg00011.htmlThird Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/06/msg00013.htmlThird Party Advisory
Impacted products
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