CVE-2015-7509
Moderate
CVE-2015-7509
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.
Exploit probability
0.4%
Published
December 28, 2015
Required by
Not available
Last source change
April 10, 2026
03 / CONNECTIONS
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04 / EVIDENCE
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CVE-2015-7509
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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.
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- 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