CVE-2015-8953
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Oct 16, 2016
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2024
- Reserved
- Aug 25, 2016
Description
fs/overlayfs/copy_up.c in the Linux kernel before 4.2.6 uses an incorrect cleanup code path, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (dentry reference leak) via filesystem operations on a large file in a lower overlayfs layer.
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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
- [oss-security] 20160823 cve request: overlayfs: Fix dentry reference leakmailing-list
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1367814
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.2.6
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=ab79efab0a0ba01a74df782eb7fa44b044dae8b5
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/ab79efab0a0ba01a74df782eb7fa44b044dae8b5
- 92611vdb-entry
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