Information Disclosure Vulnerability in Linux Kernel's Btrfs Filesystem Handling of Compressed Inline Extents

CVE-2015-8374 · LOW Severity

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

fs/btrfs/inode.c in the Linux kernel before 4.3.3 mishandles compressed inline extents, which allows local users to obtain sensitive pre-truncation information from a file via a clone action.

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