CVE-2015-8839 Information

Description

Multiple race conditions in the ext4 filesystem implementation in the Linux kernel before 4.5 allow local users to cause a denial of service (disk corruption) by writing to a page that is associated with a different user’s file after unsynchronized hole punching and page-fault handling.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Reference

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=ea3d7209ca01da209cda6f0dea8be9cc4b7a933b http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/01/4 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/85798 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035455 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3005-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3006-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3007-1 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1842 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2077 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2669 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1323577 https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/ea3d7209ca01da209cda6f0dea8be9cc4b7a933b https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/06/msg00011.html https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/06/msg00013.html

Attack Complexity

HIGH

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

5.1