CVE-2015-5706 (GCVE-0-2015-5706)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2015-08-31 10:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 06:59
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
Use-after-free vulnerability in the path_openat function in fs/namei.c in the Linux kernel 3.x and 4.x before 4.0.4 allows local users to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via O_TMPFILE filesystem operations that leverage a duplicate cleanup operation.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
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Date Public
2015-05-17 00:00
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