EUVD-2014-4944

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CVE-2014-5045

The mountpointlast function in fs/namei.c in the Linux kernel before 3.15.8 does not properly maintain a certain reference count during attempts to use the umount system call in conjunction with a symlink, which allows local users to cause a denial of service memory consumption or use-after-free ...

CVE-2014-5045: Improper Link Resolution Before File Access

The mountpointlast function in fs/namei.c in the Linux kernel before 3.15.8 does not properly maintain a certain reference count during attempts to use the umount system call in conjunction with a symlink, which allows local users to cause a denial of service memory consumption or use-after-free ...