CVE-2015-6252
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2015-10-19 10:00
Modified
2024-08-06 07:15
Severity ?
EPSS score ?
Summary
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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