GSD-2020-11935

Vulnerability from gsd - Updated: 2023-12-13 01:22
Details
It was discovered that aufs improperly managed inode reference counts in the vfsub_dentry_open() method. A local attacker could use this vulnerability to cause a denial of service attack.
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CVE-2020-11935
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