CVE-2015-7312 Information

Description

Multiple race conditions in the Advanced Union Filesystem (aufs) aufs3-mmap.patch and aufs4-mmap.patch patches for the Linux kernel 3.x and 4.x allow local users to cause a denial of service (use-after-free and BUG) or possibly gain privileges via a (1) madvise or (2) msync system call related to mm/madvise.c and mm/msync.c.

Reference

http://sourceforge.net/p/aufs/mailman/message/34449209/ http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3364 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/09/22/10 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2777-1