ghsa-hgx4-cgxm-99gj
Vulnerability from github
Published
2022-05-14 01:52
Modified
2025-04-12 13:01
Severity ?
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Details

The ecryptfs_privileged_open function in fs/ecryptfs/kthread.c in the Linux kernel before 4.6.3 allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (stack memory consumption) via vectors involving crafted mmap calls for /proc pathnames, leading to recursive pagefault handling.

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  "affected": [],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2016-1583"
  ],
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    "github_reviewed": false,
    "github_reviewed_at": null,
    "nvd_published_at": "2016-06-27T10:59:00Z",
    "severity": "HIGH"
  },
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  "id": "GHSA-hgx4-cgxm-99gj",
  "modified": "2025-04-12T13:01:28Z",
  "published": "2022-05-14T01:52:01Z",
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