CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2015-2686

Published: May 02, 2016 | Modified: Jun 27, 2016
CVSS 3.x
7.8
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
7.2 HIGH
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

net/socket.c in the Linux kernel 3.19 before 3.19.3 does not validate certain range data for (1) sendto and (2) recvfrom system calls, which allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging a subsystem that uses the copy_from_iter function in the iov_iter interface, as demonstrated by the Bluetooth subsystem.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Linux_kernel Linux 3.19 (including) 3.19 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 3.19.1 (including) 3.19.1 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 3.19.2 (including) 3.19.2 (including)

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