CVE-2015-1420 (GCVE-0-2015-1420)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2015-03-16 10:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 04:40
VLAI
Summary
Race condition in the handle_to_path function in fs/fhandle.c in the Linux kernel through 3.19.1 allows local users to bypass intended size restrictions and trigger read operations on additional memory locations by changing the handle_bytes value of a file handle during the execution of this function.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
mitre CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard E 28/100 over 2310 records in the last 180 days details
References
URL Tags
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Date Public
2015-01-28 00:00
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      "current_release_date": "2026-06-27T09:30:09+00:00",
      "cve": "CVE-2015-1420",
      "id": "CVE-2015-1420",
      "initial_release_date": "2015-01-28T00:00:00+00:00",
      "product_status:known_affected": "32",
      "product_status:known_not_affected": "1",
      "source": "Red Hat CSAF VEX",
      "status": "final",
      "title": "kernel: fs/fhandle.c race condition",
      "url": "https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2015/cve-2015-1420.json",
      "version": "3"
    }
  }
}



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