CVE-2015-4178

Published: 02/05/2016 Updated: 06/05/2016

CVSS v2 Base Score: 4.9 | Impact Score: 6.9 | Exploitability Score: 3.9

CVSS v3 Base Score: 5.5 | Impact Score: 3.6 | Exploitability Score: 1.8

VMScore: 437

Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

The fs_pin implementation in the Linux kernel prior to 4.0.5 does not ensure the internal consistency of a certain list data structure, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) by leveraging user-namespace root access for an MNT_DETACH umount2 system call, related to fs/fs_pin.c and include/linux/fs_pin.h.

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A flaw was found in the Linux kernel which is related to the user namespace lazily unmounting file systems The fs_pin struct has two members (m_list and s_list) which are usually initialized on use in the pin_insert_group function However, these members might go unmodified; in this case, the system panics when it attempts to destroy or free the ...

NVD-CWE-Other http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/05/29/10 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/05/29/5 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/06/04/5 https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/820f9f147dcce2602eefd9b575bbbd9ea14f0953 http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=820f9f147dcce2602eefd9b575bbbd9ea14f0953 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.0.5 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1249849 https://nvd.nist.gov https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2015-4178

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