PT-2016-4066 · Linux+1 · Linux Kernel+1

Dongdong She

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Published

2015-06-03

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Updated

2016-11-28

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CVE-2015-8950

CVSS v3.1

5.5

Medium

VectorAV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux kernel versions prior to 4.0.3
Description The issue allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory. This is due to the failure to initialize certain data structures in the arch/arm64/mm/dma-mapping.c file, which can be exploited by triggering a dma mmap call.
Recommendations For Linux kernel versions prior to 4.0.3, update to version 4.0.3 or later to resolve the issue.

Exploit

Fix

Information Disclosure

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Weakness Enumeration

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2015-1485
ALT-PU-2015-1849
CVE-2015-8950

Affected Products

Alt Linux
Linux Kernel