CVE-2015-7312 (GCVE-0-2015-7312)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2015-11-16 11:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 07:43
VLAI
Summary
Multiple race conditions in the Advanced Union Filesystem (aufs) aufs3-mmap.patch and aufs4-mmap.patch patches for the Linux kernel 3.x and 4.x allow local users to cause a denial of service (use-after-free and BUG) or possibly gain privileges via a (1) madvise or (2) msync system call, related to mm/madvise.c and mm/msync.c.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3364 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
http://sourceforge.net/p/aufs/mailman/message/34449209/ mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/0… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2777-1 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
Date Public
2015-09-10 00:00
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