CVE-2015-8569 (GCVE-0-2015-8569)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2015-12-28 11:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 08:20
VLAI?
Summary
The (1) pptp_bind and (2) pptp_connect functions in drivers/net/ppp/pptp.c in the Linux kernel through 4.3.3 do not verify an address length, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory and bypass the KASLR protection mechanism via a crafted application.
Severity ?
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/1… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2886-1 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2890-3 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/79428 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torva… x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://twitter.com/grsecurity/statuses/6767442408… x_refsource_MISC
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-annou… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/12/14/252 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-annou… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2890-2 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/09ccfd23… x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034549 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1292045 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2890-1 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
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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