CVE-2015-7509

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.4 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2015-12-28 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

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.

Affected products

Linux kernel: through 3.6.11

References

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=c9b92530a723ac5ef8e352885a1862b18f31b2f5
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-12/msg00026.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-12/msg00031.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00038.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0855.html
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034559
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1259222
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=956709
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/c9b92530a723ac5ef8e352885a1862b18f31b2f5
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-7509
http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=c9b92530a723ac5ef8e352885a1862b18f31b2f5
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-12/msg00026.html

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