CVE-2015-0274

Linux Kernel 3.11-3.14 - Denial of Service via XFS Remote Attribute Replacement

Title source: llm

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.

References (8)

Core 8

Core References

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2544-1

Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/8275cdd0e7ac550dcce2b3ef6d2fb3b808c1ae59

Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0694.html

Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0290.html

Issue Tracking x_refsource_confirm

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1195248

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_sectrack

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031853

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2543-1

Broken Link x_refsource_confirm

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=8275cdd0e7ac550dcce2b3ef6d2fb3b808c1ae59

Scores

EPSS 0.0044

EPSS Percentile 36.1%

Details

CWE

CWE-19

Status published

Products (1)

linux/linux_kernel 3.11 - 3.15

Published Mar 16, 2015

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026