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CVE-2015-5706 PUBLISHED

Use-after-free vulnerability in the path_openat function in fs/namei.c in the Linux kernel 3.x and 4.x before 4.0.4 allows local users to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via O_TMPFILE filesystem operations that leverage a duplicate cleanup operation.

EPSS 0.06% · 18.1th percentile

Risk Scores

EPSS Score

0.06%

18.1th percentile

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Ubuntu:14.04:LTS	linux-lts-utopic	0, 3.16.0-25.33~14.04.2, 3.16.0-26.35~14.04.1
Ubuntu:14.04:LTS	linux	3.13.0-8.28, 3.13.0-10.30, 3.13.0-11.31
Ubuntu:14.04:LTS	linux-lts-vivid	0, 3.19.0-18.18~14.04.1, 3.19.0-20.20~14.04.1

Timeline

Aug 3, 2015 CVE Published
Feb 4, 2022 EPSS Score
Mar 28, 2022 EPSS Score
May 19, 2022 EPSS Score
Jul 10, 2022 EPSS Score
Sep 1, 2022 EPSS Score
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Dec 14, 2022 EPSS Score
Feb 4, 2023 EPSS Score
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Mar 28, 2023 EPSS Score
May 19, 2023 EPSS Score

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-5706 third-party-advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/01/5 third-party-advisory
https://twitter.com/grsecurity/status/597127122910490624 third-party-advisory
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2664-1 vendor-advisory
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2665-1 vendor-advisory
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2667-1 vendor-advisory
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2680-1 vendor-advisory
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2681-1 vendor-advisory
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-5706 third-party-advisory

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