CVE-2015-8839

Multiple race conditions in the ext4 filesystem implementation in the Linux kernel before 4.5 allow local users to cause a denial of service (disk corruption) by writing to a page that is associated with a different user's file after unsynchronized hole punching and page-fault handling.

Score
CVSS 3.1 5.1 Medium
Status
Modified - cve@mitre.org
Published
2016-05-02
Last modified
2024-08-06
Weaknesses
CWE-362

Affected products

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