CVE-2015-7312 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2015-7312

Multiple race conditions in the Advanced Union Filesystem (aufs) aufs3-mmap.patch...

Vulnerability Description

Multiple race conditions in the Advanced Union Filesystem (aufs) aufs3-mmap.patch and aufs4-mmap.patch patches for the Linux kernel 3.x and 4.x allow local users to cause a denial of service (use-after-free and BUG) or possibly gain privileges via a (1) madvise or (2) msync system call, related to mm/madvise.c and mm/msync.c.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

Affected Vendor

Affected Software

linux kernel, ubuntu linux, debian linux
Vulnerable Versions:
3.0.0, 4.0.0, 14.04, 8.0

Timeline

Official Publish: November 16th, 2015
Last Modified: August 6th, 2024
Added to House: July 19th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.