GHSA-m5wq-r6hh-xqf5

GHSA-m5wq-r6hh-xqf5 PUBLISHED CVSS 5.5 MEDIUM

Record from GitHub Advisory Database · Published April 7, 2023

It was discovered that aufs improperly managed inode reference counts in the vfsub_dentry_open() method. A local attacker could use this vulnerability to cause a denial of service attack.

Risk scores

CVSS 3.1

5.5

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

Timeline

Apr 7, 2023 CVE Published
May 1, 2026 Security Advisory

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vulnetix vdb vuln GHSA-m5wq-r6hh-xqf5
vulnetix vdb fixes GHSA-m5wq-r6hh-xqf5

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  "https://api.vdb.vulnetix.com/v2/vuln/GHSA-m5wq-r6hh-xqf5/fixes/registry"

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References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-11935 advisory
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-11935 url
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1873074 url

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