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CVE-2015-1328 (GCVE-0-2015-1328)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2016-11-28 03:01 – Updated: 2024-08-06 04:40
VLAI
Summary
The overlayfs implementation in the linux (aka Linux kernel) package before 3.19.0-21.21 in Ubuntu through 15.04 does not properly check permissions for file creation in the upper filesystem directory, which allows local users to obtain root access by leveraging a configuration in which overlayfs is permitted in an arbitrary mount namespace.
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2015-06-16 00:00
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