CVE-2015-8952
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Oct 16, 2016
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2024
- Reserved
- Aug 25, 2016
Description
The mbcache feature in the ext2 and ext4 filesystem implementations in the Linux kernel before 4.6 mishandles xattr block caching, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (soft lockup) via filesystem operations in environments that use many attributes, as demonstrated by Ceph and Samba.
Scores
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Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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n/an/a |
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References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1360968
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/f9a61eb4e2471c56a63cd804c7474128138c38ac
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/82939d7999dfc1f1998c4b1c12e2f19edbdff272
- USN-3582-1vendor-advisory
- https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=107301
- [oss-security] 20160825 Re: CVE request: Linux kernel mbcache lock contention denial of service.mailing-list
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=82939d7999dfc1f1998c4b1c12e2f19edbdff272
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=be0726d33cb8f411945884664924bed3cb8c70ee
- [oss-security] 20160822 CVE request: Linux kernel mbcache lock contention denial of service.mailing-list
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/be0726d33cb8f411945884664924bed3cb8c70ee
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=f9a61eb4e2471c56a63cd804c7474128138c38ac
- https://lwn.net/Articles/668718/
- USN-3582-2vendor-advisory
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