CVE-2015-5706
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.
- EPSS
- 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 37% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-416
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- canonical:ubuntu_linux
- debian:debian_linux
- linux:linux_kernel
References
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=f15133df088ecadd141ea1907f2c96df67c729f0
- http://twitter.com/grsecurity/statuses/597127122910490624
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3329
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.0.4
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/01/5