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CVE-2015-8952

CVSS v3.0 5.5 (Medium)
55% Progress
CVSS v2.0 2.1 (Low)
21% Progress
EPSS 0.04 % (11th)
0.04% Progress
Affected Products 1
Advisories 3
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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.

Weaknesses
CWE-19
Data Processing Errors
CVE Status
PUBLISHED
CNA
MITRE
Published Date
2016-10-16 21:59:01
(8 years ago)
Updated Date
2018-03-16 01:29:00
(6 years ago)

Affected Products

Linux

Configuration #1

    CPE23 From Up To
  Linux Kernel 4.5.7 and prior versions cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel <= 4.5.7