CVEvulnerability

CVE-2015-6252

2.1 LOW Published 2015-10-19 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2015-10-19
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-399

Description

The vhost_dev_ioctl function in drivers/vhost/vhost.c in the Linux kernel before 4.1.5 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a VHOST_SET_LOG_FD ioctl call that triggers permanent file-descriptor allocation.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (<= 4.1.4)

Related

Weakness · not in database (1)

References