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LIN7-6135 : Security Advisory - linux - CVE-2015-4177

Created: May 17, 2016    Updated: Sep 8, 2018
Resolved Date: Sep 21, 2017
Found In Version: 7.0.0.15
Fix Version: 7.0.0.27
Severity: Standard
Applicable for: Wind River Linux 7
Component/s: Kernel

Description

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.<a href=http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/476.html>CWE-476: NULL Pointer Dereference</a>

http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2015-4177

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