Vulnerability Database

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Total vulnerabilities in the database

CVE-2015-8839

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.

  • Published: May 2, 2016
  • Updated: Apr 13, 2023
  • CVE: CVE-2015-8839
  • Severity: Medium
  • Exploit:

CVSS v3:

  • Severity: Medium
  • Score: 5.1
  • AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS v2:

  • Severity: Low
  • Score: 1.9
  • AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CWEs:

Software From Fixed in
linux / linux_kernel 4.5-rc7 4.5-rc7.x
linux / linux_kernel 4.5-rc6 4.5-rc6.x
linux / linux_kernel 4.5-rc5 4.5-rc5.x
linux / linux_kernel 4.5-rc4 4.5-rc4.x
linux / linux_kernel 4.5-rc3 4.5-rc3.x
linux / linux_kernel 4.5-rc2 4.5-rc2.x
linux / linux_kernel 4.5-rc1 4.5-rc1.x
linux / linux_kernel - 4.4.221.x
canonical / ubuntu_linux 16.04 16.04.x
canonical / ubuntu_linux 14.04 14.04.x