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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) …

Impact

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
LinuxLinux Kernel
through 4.4.221
Version 4.5
CanonicalUbuntu Linux
Versions 14.04, 16.04

Weakness classification

CWE-362

References