CVE-2015-6252 (GCVE-0-2015-6252)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2015-10-19 10:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 07:15
VLAI?
Summary
The vhost_dev_ioctl function in drivers/vhost/vhost.c in the Linux kernel before 4.1.5 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a VHOST_SET_LOG_FD ioctl call that triggers permanent file-descriptor allocation.
Severity ?
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
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Date Public ?
2015-08-10 00:00
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