Race Condition The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package kernel-headers (opens in a new tab)

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Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-KERNELHEADERS-4693656
published26 Jul 2021
disclosed31 Mar 2016

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Introduced: 31 Mar 2016

CVE-2015-8839 (opens in a new tab) CWE-362 (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:7.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-headers package and not the kernel-headers package as distributed by RHEL.

Multiple race conditions in the ext4 filesystem implementation in the Linux kernel before 4.5 allow local users to cause a denial of service (disk corruption) by writing to a page that is associated with a different user's file after unsynchronized hole punching and page-fault handling.