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CVE-2015-4178
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2016-05-02T10:59:16.203 · Last modified 2026-06-17T00:26:52.277

Summary

The fs_pin implementation in the Linux kernel before 4.0.5 does not ensure the internal consistency of a certain list data structure, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) by leveraging user-namespace root access for an MNT_DETACH umount2 system call, related to fs/fs_pin.c and include/linux/fs_pin.h.

Affected products

linux — linux_kernel

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References

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