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