[v2.6] kernel: fs: umount on symlink leaks mnt count (CVE-2014-5045)
A flaw was found in the way reference counting was handled in the Linux kernel’s VFS subsystem when unmount on symlink was performed.
References:
CONFIRM: http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q3/237
CONFIRM: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show\_bug.cgi?id=1122472
COMMIT: https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/7/21/98
COMMIT:
http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=295dc39d941dc2ae53d5c170365af4c9d5c16212
COMMTT:
http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=fbf08efa0400ec51963666d4757b4c57e5096a3c
(from redmine: issue id 3262, created on 2014-07-29, closed on 2017-09-05)
- Relations:
- parent #3260