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CVE-2015-8839
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.1
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2016-05-02T10:59:22.110 · Last modified 2026-06-17T00:35:20.897

Summary

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.

Affected products

linux — linux_kernel

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References

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