CVE-2015-7509
medium
CVSS v3
4.4
CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
4.4
Description
fs/ext4/namei.c in the Linux kernel before 3.7 allows physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service (system crash) via a crafted no-journal filesystem, a related issue to CVE-2013-2015.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
44%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| debian | bookworm | fixed | 3.8-1~experimental.1 |
| debian | bullseye | fixed | 3.8-1~experimental.1 |
| debian | forky | fixed | 3.8-1~experimental.1 |
| debian | sid | fixed | 3.8-1~experimental.1 |
| debian | trixie | fixed | 3.8-1~experimental.1 |
| linux-kernel | affected | |
References
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=c9b92530a723ac5ef8e352885a1862b18f31b2f5
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-12/msg00026.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-12/msg00031.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00038.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0855.html
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034559
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1259222
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=956709
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/c9b92530a723ac5ef8e352885a1862b18f31b2f5
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-7509
CWEs
CWE-20
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.