CVE-2014-5045 (GCVE-0-2014-5045)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2014-08-01 10:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 11:34
VLAI?
Summary
The mountpoint_last function in fs/namei.c in the Linux kernel before 3.15.8 does not properly maintain a certain reference count during attempts to use the umount system call in conjunction with a symlink, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption or use-after-free) or possibly have unspecified other impact via the umount program.
Severity ?
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public ?
2014-07-23 00:00
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