CVE-2015-8961

A flaw was found in the ext4 subsystem. This vulnerability is a use after free vulnerability was found in __ext4_journal_stop(). Attackers could abuse this to allow any code which attempts to deal with the journal failure to be mishandled or not fail at all. This could lead to data corruption or crashes.

This issue does not affect the Linux kernel packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6, 7 and MRG 2.x. This issue has been rated as having moderate security impact.

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