Veracode Vulnerability DatabaseVERACODE:16932Denial Of Service (DoS)
EPSS
Percentile
62.2%
kernel is vulnerable to denial of service. A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel’s ext4 file system driver handled certain corrupted file system images. An attacker with physical access to the system could use this flaw to crash the system.
References
git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=744692dc059845b2a3022119871846e74d4f6e11
mirror.linux.org.au/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.34
rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0855.html
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access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/6.8_Release_Notes/index.html
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bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1066751
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github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/744692dc059845b2a3022119871846e74d4f6e11
rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0855.html
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