CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2015-8324

Published: May 02, 2016 | Modified: Feb 13, 2023
CVSS 3.x
4.6
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
4.9 MEDIUM
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

The ext4 implementation in the Linux kernel before 2.6.34 does not properly track the initialization of certain data structures, which allows physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and panic) via a crafted USB device, related to the ext4_fill_super function.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Linux_kernel Linux * 2.6.33.20 (including)

References