CVE-2015-8539 (GCVE-0-2015-8539)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2016-02-08 02:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 08:20
VLAI?
Summary
The KEYS subsystem in the Linux kernel before 4.4 allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (BUG) via crafted keyctl commands that negatively instantiate a key, related to security/keys/encrypted-keys/encrypted.c, security/keys/trusted.c, and security/keys/user_defined.c.
Severity ?
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
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