CVEvulnerability

CVE-2015-1593

5.0 MEDIUM Published 2015-03-16 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2015-03-16
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-264

Description

The stack randomization feature in the Linux kernel before 3.19.1 on 64-bit platforms uses incorrect data types for the results of bitwise left-shift operations, which makes it easier for attackers to bypass the ASLR protection mechanism by predicting the address of the top of the stack, related to the randomize_stack_top function in fs/binfmt_elf.c and the stack_maxrandom_size function in arch/x86/mm/mmap.c.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (<= 3.18.9)

Related

Weakness · not in database (1)

References