Security Advisory
CVE-2015-5706
4.6
Vulnerability Description
Use-after-free vulnerability in the path_openat function in fs/namei.c in the Linux kernel 3.x and 4.x before 4.0.4 allows local users to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via O_TMPFILE filesystem operations that leverage a duplicate cleanup operation.
Published Date
August 31, 2015
Official Source
NIST NVD Advisory