Skip to content
Fencer Intel
low 1.9

CVE-2015-1420 json

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…

published 11y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2015-1557

cvss
1.9
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.4%
EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 30%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • linux Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 3.16.7-ckt7-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2015-1420

  • linux Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 3.13.0-57.95
  • linux-lts-vivid Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 3.19.0-22.22~14.04.1
  • linux-lts-utopic Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 3.16.0-43.58~14.04.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2015-1420

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • kernel-source-rt SLE Real Time 11 SP4 3.0.101.rt130-45.1
  • kernel-rt SLE Real Time 11 SP4 3.0.101.rt130-45.1
  • kernel-syms-rt SLE Real Time 11 SP4 3.0.101.rt130-45.1
  • kernel-rt_trace SLE Real Time 11 SP4 3.0.101.rt130-45.1
  • kernel-rt SLE Real Time 11 SP3 3.0.101.rt130-0.33.40.1
  • kernel-syms-rt SLE Real Time 11 SP3 3.0.101.rt130-0.33.40.1
  • kernel-rt_trace SLE Real Time 11 SP3 3.0.101.rt130-0.33.40.1
  • kernel-source-rt SLE Real Time 11 SP3 3.0.101.rt130-0.33.40.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2015:2167-1SUSE-SU-2015:1592-1SUSE-SU-2015:1678-1SUSE-SU-2015:1611-1SUSE-SU-2015:1478-1SUSE-SU-2015:1224-1

Is CVE-2015-1420 in your stack? Fencer shows which of your repositories are affected as soon as an advisory lands, and opens the fix as a pull request.

Check with Fencer

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2015-1420 updated cvss 2.6

kernel: fs/fhandle.c race condition

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 perf, kernel, python-perf, kernel-kdump, kernel-firmware, kernel-bootwrapper, +1 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 perf, kernel, bpftool, python-perf, kernel-kdump, kernel-tools, +3 more Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2 kernel
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 kernel
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

0.36% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 30% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 1.9 AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization
Technology feeds

References

Sources

Fencer Intel keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.