vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2015-8952: linux -- security update

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Oct 16, 2016
Added
Jul 30, 2024
Modified
Jul 30, 2024

Description

The mbcache feature in the ext2 and ext4 filesystem implementations in the Linux kernel before 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.

Solution

debian-upgrade-linux
Title
NEW

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