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CentOS Linux: CVE-2015-8839: Important: kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
May 2, 2016
Added
Aug 28, 2019
Modified
May 25, 2023

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.

Solutions

centos-upgrade-kernelcentos-upgrade-kernel-rt
Title
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