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SCP7-466 : Security Advisory - linux - CVE-2015-8952

Created: Oct 25, 2016    Updated: Sep 8, 2018
Resolved Date: Jan 11, 2017
Found In Version: 7.0.0.20
Fix Version: 7.0.0.23
Severity: Standard
Applicable for: Wind River Linux 7
Component/s: Kernel

Description

The mbcache feature in the ext2 and ext4 filesystem implementations in the Linux kernel before 4.6 mishandles xattr block caching, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (soft lockup) via filesystem operations in environments that use many attributes, as demonstrated by Ceph and Samba.

http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2015-8952

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