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