SUSE: CVE-2014-8086: SUSE Linux Security Advisory
5
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
10/13/2014
07/25/2018
12/18/2015
02/07/2021
Description
Race condition in the ext4_file_write_iter function in fs/ext4/file.c in the Linux kernel through 3.17 allows local users to cause a denial of service (file unavailability) via a combination of a write action and an F_SETFL fcntl operation for the O_DIRECT flag.
Solution(s)
- suse-upgrade-kernel-default
- suse-upgrade-kernel-docs
- suse-upgrade-kernel-obs-build
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