Security Advisory

CVE-2015-1420

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2015-03-16 10:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-06 04:40:18
Assigner mitre
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

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.