Security Advisory
CVE-2015-8839
5.1
MEDIUM
Vulnerability Description
Multiple race conditions in the ext4 filesystem implementation in the Linux kernel before 4.5 allow local users to cause a denial of service (disk corruption) by writing to a page that is associated with a different user's file after unsynchronized hole punching and page-fault handling.
Published Date
May 2, 2016
Official Source
NIST NVD Advisory