CVE-2015-4177 (GCVE-0-2015-4177)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2016-05-02 10:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 06:04
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Summary
The collect_mounts function in fs/namespace.c in the Linux kernel before 4.0.5 does not properly consider that it may execute after a path has been unmounted, 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.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2015-05-29 00:00
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