PT-2015-5563 · Linux+3 · Linux Kernel+3

Martin Prpič

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Published

2015-02-17

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Updated

2017-01-03

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CVE-2015-2042

CVSS v2.0

4.6

Medium

VectorAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux kernel versions prior to 3.19
Description The issue allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel memory or possibly have unspecified other impact by accessing a sysctl entry, due to an incorrect data type used in a sysctl table in net/rds/sysctl.c.
Recommendations For Linux kernel versions prior to 3.19, update to version 3.19 or later to resolve the issue.

Exploit

Fix

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Weakness Enumeration

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2015-1186
ALT-PU-2015-1794
CVE-2015-2042
DLA-246-1
DSA-3237-1
MGASA-2015-0171
MGASA-2015-0172
MGASA-2015-0219
OPENSUSE-SU-2016_0301-1
SUSE-RU-2015:0621-1
SUSE-SU-2015:0581-1
SUSE-SU-2015:0736-1
SUSE-SU-2015:1071-1
SUSE-SU-2015:1174-1
SUSE-SU-2015:1376-1
SUSE-SU-2015:1478-1
USN-2560-1
USN-2561-1
USN-2562-1
USN-2563-1
USN-2564-1
USN-2565-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux
Linux Kernel
Suse
Ubuntu