Security Advisory

CVE-2015-5706

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2015-08-31 10:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-06 06:59:03
Assigner mitre
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

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.