CVE-2015-8324
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- May 2, 2016
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2024
- Reserved
- Nov 23, 2015
Description
The ext4 implementation in the Linux kernel before 2.6.34 does not properly track the initialization of certain data structures, which allows physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and panic) via a crafted USB device, related to the ext4_fill_super function.
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Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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References
- RHSA-2016:0855vendor-advisory
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinapr2016-2952096.html
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1267261
- http://mirror.linux.org.au/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.34
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/744692dc059845b2a3022119871846e74d4f6e11
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=744692dc059845b2a3022119871846e74d4f6e11
- [oss-security] 20151123 CVE request -- linux kernel: Null pointer dereference when mounting ext4 filesystemmailing-list
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