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CVE-2015-7509
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…
Medium4.4EPSS 0.40%
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- redhat
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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Medium4.4 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.40% · top 65% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.4.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (10)
- RHSA-2016:0855 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- SUSE-SU-2015:2350 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-7509 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1259222 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- SUSE-SU-2015:2339 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- 1034559 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/c9b92530a723ac5ef8e352885a1862b18f31b2f5 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- SUSE-SU-2016:2074 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=c9b92530a723ac5ef8e352885a1862b18f31b2f5 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=956709 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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