CVE-2015-1350: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The VFS subsystem in the Linux kernel 3.x provides an incomplete set of requirements for setattr operations that underspecifies removing extended privilege attributes, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (capability stripping) via a failed invocation of a system call, as demonstrated by using chown to remove a capability from the ping or Wireshark dumpcap program.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 3.0, up to and including 3.19.8
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: version 5.0 only; version 6.0 only; version 7.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Mrg: version 2.0 only

Published 2016-05-02. Last modified 2026-06-17.