CVE-2014-5045

medium

Published 2014-08-01 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

6.2

Description

The mountpoint_last function in fs/namei.c in the Linux kernel before 3.15.8 does not properly maintain a certain reference count during attempts to use the umount system call in conjunction with a symlink, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption or use-after-free) or possibly have unspecified other impact via the umount program.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

Linux kernel Affected 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
—	Affected	`3.15.8`

Red Hat Affected 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
6.5	Affected	—

Debian Fixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`3.14.15-1`
sid	Fixed	`3.14.15-1`
forky	Fixed	`3.14.15-1`
bullseye	Fixed	`3.14.15-1`
bookworm	Fixed	`3.14.15-1`

References

CWEs

CWE-59

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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