CVE-2015-8543 (GCVE-0-2015-8543)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2015-12-28 11:00
Modified
2024-08-06 08:20
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
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.
References
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0855.html vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034892 vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinapr2016-2952096.html x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2886-1 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_UBUNTU
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2890-3 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_UBUNTU
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2584.html vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2574.html vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00045.html vendor-advisory, x_refsource_SUSE
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/79698 vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00038.html vendor-advisory, x_refsource_SUSE
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2890-2 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_UBUNTU
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/79462ad02e861803b3840cc782248c7359451cd9 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=79462ad02e861803b3840cc782248c7359451cd9 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3426 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_DEBIAN
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/09/5 mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2890-1 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_UBUNTU
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1290475 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3434 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_DEBIAN
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2888-1 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_UBUNTU
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00094.html vendor-advisory, x_refsource_SUSE
Impacted products
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