UBUNTU-CVE-2015-7509

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2015-7509

    Published: 28 Dec 2015Last Modified: 16 Jul 2025
    Upstream:
    CVE-2015-7509

    Summary:

    Details: fs/ext4/namei.c in the Linux kernel before 3.7 allows physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service (system crash) via a crafted no-journal filesystem, a related issue to CVE-2013-2015.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-7509, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1259222, https://git.kernel.org/linus/c9b92530a723ac5ef8e352885a1862b18f31b2f5, https://git.kernel.org/linus/0e9a9a1ad619e7e987815d20262d36a2f95717ca, https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-7509, https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/c9b92530a723ac5ef8e352885a1862b18f31b2f5, https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=956709, http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=c9b92530a723ac5ef8e352885a1862b18f31b2f5, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-7509

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: linux

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

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -3.11.0-12.19

    Affected versions

    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