CVE-2015-4178

Description

The fs_pin implementation in the Linux kernel before 4.0.5 does not ensure the internal consistency of a certain list data structure, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) by leveraging user-namespace root access for an MNT_DETACH umount2 system call, related to fs/fs_pin.c and include/linux/fs_pin.h.

References

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/820f9f147dcce2602eefd9b575bbbd9ea14f0953

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1249849

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/06/04/5

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.0.5

http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/05/29/5

http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/05/29/10

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=820f9f147dcce2602eefd9b575bbbd9ea14f0953

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3