CVEvulnerability

CVE-2015-2042

4.6 MEDIUM Published 2015-04-21 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2015-04-21
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-17

Description

net/rds/sysctl.c in the Linux kernel before 3.19 uses an incorrect data type in a sysctl table, which allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel memory or possibly have unspecified other impact by accessing a sysctl entry.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (<= 3.18.7)

Related

Weakness · not in database (1)

References