参照： Official debian advisory, NVD, CVE.org · CVE 詳細
Freshness: upstream tracker timestamp is available; use API updated time as primary recency signal.
CVE-2014-8559 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (linux), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5.
The d_walk function in fs/dcache.c in the Linux kernel through 3.17.2 does not properly maintain the semantics of rename_lock, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (deadlock and system hang) via a crafted application.