CVE-2015-8952 (GCVE-0-2015-8952)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2016-10-16 21:00
Modified
2024-08-06 08:36
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- n/a
Summary
The mbcache feature in the ext2 and ext4 filesystem implementations in the Linux kernel before 4.6 mishandles xattr block caching, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (soft lockup) via filesystem operations in environments that use many attributes, as demonstrated by Ceph and Samba.
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