K05211147: Kernel vulnerabilities CVE-2014-8559, CVE-2015-0275, CVE-2015-1333, CVE-2015-3212, and CVE-2015-4700

Security Advisory Description CVE-2014-8559 The dwalk function in fs/dcache.c in the Linux kernel through 3.17.2 does not properly maintain the semantics of renamelock, which allows local users to cause a denial of service deadlock and system hang via a crafted application. CVE-2015-0275 The...

CVE-2015-4700

The bpfintjitcompile function in arch/x86/net/bpfjitcomp.c in the Linux kernel before 4.0.6 allows local users to cause a denial of service system crash by creating a packet filter and then loading crafted BPF instructions that trigger late convergence by the JIT compiler...