Description
The XFS implementation in the Linux kernel before 3.15 improperly uses an old size value during remote attribute replacement, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (transaction overrun and data corruption) or possibly gain privileges by leveraging XFS filesystem access.
Affected products
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
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n/aaffected
References
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2544-1 ↗
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/8275cdd0e7ac550dcce2b3ef6d2fb3b808c1ae59 ↗
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0694.html ↗
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0290.html ↗
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1195248 ↗
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031853 ↗
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2543-1 ↗
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=8275cdd0e7ac550dcce2b3ef6d2fb3b808c1ae59 ↗