CVE-2024-14027

CVE-2024-14027 in the Linux kernel: the fremovexattr() path leaks a file reference when strncpy_from_user() fails, due to missing fdput() after fdget(). This can allow an unprivileged local user to cause kernel memory exhaustion in multi-threaded contexts. The issue was inadvertently fixed by com...

CVE-2015-8952

The mbcache feature in the ext2 and ext4 filesystem implementations in the Linux kernel before 4.6 mishandles xattr block caching, which allows local users to cause a denial of service soft lockup via filesystem operations in environments that use many attributes, as demonstrated by Ceph and Samb...