CVE-2015-8324

Severity

49%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

115%

CWE-476: NULL Pointer Dereference

The ext4 implementation in the Linux kernel before 2.6.34 does not properly track the initialization of certain data structures, which allows physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and panic) via a crafted USB device, related to the ext4_fill_super function.

CWE-476: NULL Pointer Dereference

CVSS 3.0 Base Score 4.6. CVSS Attack Vector: physical. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H).

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 4.9. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C).

Overview

First reported 8 years ago

2016-05-02 10:59:00

Last updated 8 years ago

2016-11-28 19:46:00

Affected Software

Linux Kernel

References

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=744692dc059845b2a3022119871846e74d4f6e11

Vendor Advisory

http://mirror.linux.org.au/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.34

RHSA-2016:0855

[oss-security] 20151123 CVE request -- linux kernel: Null pointer dereference when mounting ext4 filesystem

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinapr2016-2952096.html

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1267261

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/744692dc059845b2a3022119871846e74d4f6e11

Patch, Vendor Advisory

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