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Tracker / CVE-2015-8660

CVE-2015-8660

Medium 6.7

The ovl_setattr function in fs/overlayfs/inode.c in the Linux kernel through 4.3.3 attempts to merge distinct setattr operations, which allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions and modify the attributes of arbitrary overlay files via a crafted application.

Affected products and versions

linux linux_kernel · 3.18 → 3.18.31
linux linux_kernel · 3.19 → 4.1.22
linux linux_kernel · 4.2 → 4.4

Analysis

This page is not indexable yet.Until it carries original analysis — what it actually exposes, how to check in two minutes whether a system was touched, what to do if it was — the page stays noindex. The database decides that, not the template.

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