CVE-2015-1328

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Nov 28, 2016
Updated: Aug 6, 2024
Reserved: Jan 22, 2015

Description

The overlayfs implementation in the linux (aka Linux kernel) package before 3.19.0-21.21 in Ubuntu through 15.04 does not properly check permissions for file creation in the upper filesystem directory, which allows local users to obtain root access by leveraging a configuration in which overlayfs is permitted in an arbitrary mount namespace.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2015/CVE-2015-1328.html
75206vdb-entry
37292exploit
40688exploit
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-1328
[oss-security] 20150616 CVE-2015-1328: incorrect permission checks in overlayfs, ubuntu local rootmailing-list

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