CVE-2015-8543 (GCVE-0-2015-8543)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2015-12-28 11:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 08:20
VLAI?
Summary
The networking implementation in the Linux kernel through 4.3.3, as used in Android and other products, does not validate protocol identifiers for certain protocol families, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL function pointer dereference and system crash) or possibly gain privileges by leveraging CLONE_NEWUSER support to execute a crafted SOCK_RAW application.
Severity ?
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
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http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034892 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
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http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2890-3 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2584.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2574.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-annou… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/79698 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
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http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2890-2 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/79462ad0… x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torva… x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3426 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
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http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3434 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2888-1 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-annou… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
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