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HistoryJun 15, 2015 - 12:00 a.m.

Linux kernel vulnerability

2015-06-1500:00:00
ubuntu.com
50

6 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

Low

0.001 Low

EPSS

Percentile

26.2%

Releases

  • Ubuntu 14.04 ESM

Packages

  • linux - Linux kernel

Details

Philip Pettersson discovered a privilege escalation when using overlayfs
mounts inside of user namespaces. A local user could exploit this flaw to
gain administrative privileges on the system.