CVE-2015-8839

MediumCVSS 5.1/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 5.1/10CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-362

Affected software

VendorProductVersions
n/an/an/a

References

Timeline

Published
May 2, 2016
Last modified
Jun 17, 2026
NVD status
Modified

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CVE-2015-8839: Medium severity, CVSS 5.1 | Vulnix