MGASA-2015-0236

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    MGASA-2015-0236

    Published: 23 May 2015Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2015-4036

    Summary: Updated kernel packages fix security vulnerabilities and bugs

    Details: Updated kernel fixes security, critical data corruption and pdata loss issues This kernel update is based on upstream -longterm 3.14.43 and fixes a security issue, and critical data corruption and data loss issues: drivers/vhost/scsi.c: potential memory corruption (CVE-2015-4036) ext4 filesystem has a bug that make it possible to lose whole file system block worth of data when we hit the specific interaction with unwritten and delayed extents in status extent tree. when using software raid 0 on SSDs along with trim/discard, any delete or modification of files can lead to random destruction on the filesystem. (this regression was introduced in upstream 3.14.41) For other fixes in this update, see the referenced changelogs.

    References: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0236.html, https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16008, https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.14.42, https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.14.43

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: kernel

    Purl: pkg:rpm/mageia/kernel?arch=source&distro=mageia-4

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -3.14.43-1.mga4

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
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    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
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    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
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    High