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FKIE_CVE-2015-7509

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2015-12-28 11:59 - Updated: 2026-06-17 00:32
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.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=c9b92530a723ac5ef8e352885a1862b18f31b2f5Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-12/msg00026.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-12/msg00031.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00038.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0855.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034559
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1259222
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=956709
secalert@redhat.comhttps://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/c9b92530a723ac5ef8e352885a1862b18f31b2f5Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-7509
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=c9b92530a723ac5ef8e352885a1862b18f31b2f5Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-12/msg00026.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-12/msg00031.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00038.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0855.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034559
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1259222
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=956709
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/c9b92530a723ac5ef8e352885a1862b18f31b2f5Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-7509
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
linux linux_kernel *

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