CVE-2015-8839

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.

Weakness classification

• CWE-362: Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')

Primary references

• cve@mitre.org — Vendor Advisory
• cve@mitre.org — Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
• cve@mitre.org — Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• cve@mitre.org — Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• cve@mitre.org — Third Party Advisory
• cve@mitre.org — Third Party Advisory
• cve@mitre.org — Third Party Advisory
• cve@mitre.org — Third Party Advisory
• cve@mitre.org — Third Party Advisory
• cve@mitre.org — Third Party Advisory
• cve@mitre.org — Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
• cve@mitre.org — Third Party Advisory