VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2015-5706

medium
Published 2015-08-31 · 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
4.6

Description

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact
linux Linux kernel Affected 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
— Affected 4.0.4
ubuntu Ubuntu Affected 2 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
14.04 Affected —
12.04 Affected —
debian Debian Mixed 7 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 4.0.4-1
sid Fixed 4.0.4-1
forky Fixed 4.0.4-1
bullseye Fixed 4.0.4-1
bookworm Fixed 4.0.4-1
8.0 Affected —
7.0 Affected —

References

CWEs

CWE-416

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

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.