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Tracker / CVE-2015-1420

CVE-2015-1420

Low 1.9

Race condition in the handle_to_path function in fs/fhandle.c in the Linux kernel through 3.19.1 allows local users to bypass intended size restrictions and trigger read operations on additional memory locations by changing the handle_bytes value of a file handle during the execution of this function.

Affected products and versions

debian debian_linux
linux linux_kernel · … → 3.18.9

Analysis

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