CVE-2015-5706 in Android

Summary

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.

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• Reservation: 08/02/2015
• Disclosure: 08/31/2015
• Moderation: VulDB entry created
• Entries: 2: VDB-94957
• CPE: ready
• CWE: CWE-416 (Confirmed)
• CVSS: 7.8
• EPSS: 0.00058
• Activities: Very Low

Sources

• MITRE: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-5706
• NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-5706
• CVE Details: https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2015-5706/