UBUNTU-CVE-2015-7312

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2015-7312

    Published: 23 Sept 2015Last Modified: 22 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2015-7312
    Aliases:
    USN-2775-1
    USN-2776-1
    USN-2777-1

    Summary:

    Details: Multiple race conditions in the Advanced Union Filesystem (aufs) aufs3-mmap.patch and aufs4-mmap.patch patches for the Linux kernel 3.x and 4.x allow local users to cause a denial of service (use-after-free and BUG) or possibly gain privileges via a (1) madvise or (2) msync system call, related to mm/madvise.c and mm/msync.c.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-7312, http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/09/10/3, http://sourceforge.net/p/aufs/mailman/message/34449209/, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2776-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2775-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2777-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2778-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2779-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-7312

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: linux

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]?arch=source&distro=trusty

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -3.13.0-66.108

    Affected versions

    3.11.0-12.19

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

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