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CVE-2015-6252

Description

The vhost_dev_ioctl function in drivers/vhost/vhost.c in the Linux kernel before 4.1.5 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a VHOST_SET_LOG_FD ioctl call that triggers permanent file-descriptor allocation.

POC

Reference

- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2760-1

Github

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