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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

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Summary

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.

Timeline

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Affected versions

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    Version range not reported

References 14

bugzilla.redhat.com

ubuntu.com

securitytracker.com

GitHub · torvalds/linux

git.kernel.org

access.redhat.com

openwall.com

securityfocus.com

lists.debian.org