Security Advisory

CVE-2015-6252

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2015-10-19 10:00:00

Last updated 2024-08-06 07:15:13

Assigner mitre

CVSS score not scored

State PUBLISHED

Description

The vhost_dev_ioctl function in drivers/vhost/vhost.c in the Linux kernel before 4.1.5 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a VHOST_SET_LOG_FD ioctl call that triggers permanent file-descriptor allocation.

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