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CVE-2015-7509 (GCVE-0-2015-7509)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2015-12-28 11:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 07:51
VLAI
Summary
fs/ext4/namei.c in the Linux kernel before 3.7 allows physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service (system crash) via a crafted no-journal filesystem, a related issue to CVE-2013-2015.
Severity
4.4 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2012-09-18 00:00
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