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CVE-2015-7509

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Date: December 28, 2015

fs/ext4/namei.c in the Linux kernel before 3.7 allows physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service (system crash) via a crafted no-journal filesystem, a related issue to CVE-2013-2015.

Language: C

Severity Score

4.4

Related Resources (14)

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2015-7509

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00038.html

Url: http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034559

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-7509

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-12/msg00026.html

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-12/msg00031.html

Url: http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=c9b92530a723ac5ef8e352885a1862b18f31b2f5

Url: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0855.html

Url: https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=956709

Url: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/c9b92530a723ac5ef8e352885a1862b18f31b2f5

Url: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-7509

Url: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-7509

Url: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1259222

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2015-7509

Severity Score

4.4

Weakness Type (CWE)

Input Validation

CWE-20

Top Fix

Upgrade Version

Upgrade to version 3.7

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	4.4
Attack Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	HIGH
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:	4.9
Access Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Access Complexity (AC):	LOW
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	COMPLETE
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