Use-after-free vulnerability in path_openat function in Linux kernel 3.x and 4.x before 4.0.4

CVE-2015-5706 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

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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