Security Advisory

CVE-2015-8953

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2016-10-16 21:00:00

Last updated 2024-08-06 08:36:30

Assigner mitre

CVSS score not scored

State PUBLISHED

Description

fs/overlayfs/copy_up.c in the Linux kernel before 4.2.6 uses an incorrect cleanup code path, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (dentry reference leak) via filesystem operations on a large file in a lower overlayfs layer.

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