Security Advisory

CVE-2014-8559

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2014-11-10 11:00:00

Last updated 2024-08-06 13:18:48

Assigner mitre

State PUBLISHED

Description

The d_walk function in fs/dcache.c in the Linux kernel through 3.17.2 does not properly maintain the semantics of rename_lock, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (deadlock and system hang) via a crafted application.

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