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CVE-2015-0274 (GCVE-0-2015-0274)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2015-03-16 10:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 04:03
VLAI
Summary
The XFS implementation in the Linux kernel before 3.15 improperly uses an old size value during remote attribute replacement, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (transaction overrun and data corruption) or possibly gain privileges by leveraging XFS filesystem access.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
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https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/8275cdd0… x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0694.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0290.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1195248 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031853 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2543-1 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvald… x_refsource_CONFIRM
Date Public
2015-03-05 00:00
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