CVE-2015-7312
kernel: multiple race conditions in aufs
Severity
LowRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 3.1
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Published · September 22, 2015
Updated · June 28, 2026
Description
Multiple race conditions in the Advanced Union Filesystem (aufs) aufs3-mmap.patch and aufs4-mmap.patch patches for the Linux kernel 3.x and 4.x allow local users to cause a denial of service (use-after-free and BUG) or possibly gain privileges via a (1) madvise or (2) msync system call, related to mm/madvise.c and mm/msync.c.
CVSS score applicability
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Mitigation
No mitigation is specified in collected source.
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 3.1 · 4CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CWE-362 · Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')