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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Mar 16, 2015· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2015-1420

CVE-2015-1420

Description

Race condition in the handle_to_path function in fs/fhandle.c in the Linux kernel through 3.19.1 allows local users to bypass intended size restrictions and trigger read operations on additional memory locations by changing the handle_bytes value of a file handle during the execution of this function.

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