CVE-2015-5706

2015-08-0300:00:00

ubuntu.com

4.6 Medium

CVSS2

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

5.1%

JSON

Use-after-free vulnerability in the path_openat function in fs/namei.c in
the Linux kernel 3.x and 4.x before 4.0.4 allows local users to cause a
denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via O_TMPFILE
filesystem operations that leverage a duplicate cleanup operation.

Bugs

<https://launchpad.net/bugs/1484797>

Notes

Author	Note
jdstrand	android kernels (flo, goldfish, grouper, maguro, mako and manta) are not supported on the Ubuntu Touch 14.10 and earlier preview kernels linux-lts-saucy no longer receives official support linux-lts-quantal no longer receives official support

OSVersionArchitecturePackageVersionFilename
ubuntu14.04noarchlinux< 3.13.0-58.97UNKNOWN
ubuntu15.04noarchlinux< 3.19.0-22.22UNKNOWN
ubuntu12.04noarchlinux-lts-trusty< 3.13.0-58.97~precise1UNKNOWN
ubuntu14.04noarchlinux-lts-utopic< 3.16.0-43.58~14.04.1UNKNOWN
ubuntu14.04noarchlinux-lts-vivid< 3.19.0-22.22~14.04.1UNKNOWN

OS	Version	Architecture	Package	Version	Filename
ubuntu	14.04	noarch	linux	< 3.13.0-58.97	UNKNOWN
ubuntu	15.04	noarch	linux	< 3.19.0-22.22	UNKNOWN
ubuntu	12.04	noarch	linux-lts-trusty	< 3.13.0-58.97~precise1	UNKNOWN
ubuntu	14.04	noarch	linux-lts-utopic	< 3.16.0-43.58~14.04.1	UNKNOWN
ubuntu	14.04	noarch	linux-lts-vivid	< 3.19.0-22.22~14.04.1	UNKNOWN