5.5
CVSSv3

CVE-2015-8952

Published: 16/10/2016 Updated: 16/03/2018
CVSS v2 Base Score: 2.1 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 3.9
CVSS v3 Base Score: 5.5 | Impact Score: 3.6 | Exploitability Score: 1.8
VMScore: 187
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

The mbcache feature in the ext2 and ext4 filesystem implementations in the Linux kernel prior to 4.6 mishandles xattr block caching, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (soft lockup) via filesystem operations in environments that use many attributes, as demonstrated by Ceph and Samba.

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Vendor Advisories

Several security issues were fixed in the Linux kernel ...
A design flaw was found in the file extended attribute handling of the Linux kernel's handling of cached attributes Too many entries in the cache cause a soft lockup while attempting to iterate the cache and access relevant locks ...