CVEvulnerability
CVE-2015-8539
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2016-02-08
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-269
Description
The KEYS subsystem in the Linux kernel before 4.4 allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (BUG) via crafted keyctl commands that negatively instantiate a key, related to security/keys/encrypted-keys/encrypted.c, security/keys/trusted.c, and security/keys/user_defined.c.
Affected configurations
• canonical ubuntu linux 12.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 14.04
• suse linux enterprise real time extension 12
• linux linux kernel (< 4.4)
• linux linux kernel 4.4
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management weakness
References
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=096fe9eaea40a17e125569f9e657e34cdb6d73bd Vendor Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00007.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00008.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00009.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00011.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00017.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00018.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00019.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00020.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00021.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00022.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00034.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00094.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00045.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00000.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00038.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/09/1 Issue Tracking, Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0151 Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0152 Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0181 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1284450 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/096fe9eaea40a17e125569f9e657e34cdb6d73bd Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3798-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3798-2/ Third Party Advisory
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=096fe9eaea40a17e125569f9e657e34cdb6d73bd Vendor Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00007.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00008.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00009.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00011.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00017.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00018.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00019.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00020.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00021.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00022.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00034.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00094.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00045.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00000.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00038.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/09/1 Issue Tracking, Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0151 Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0152 Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0181 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1284450 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/096fe9eaea40a17e125569f9e657e34cdb6d73bd Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3798-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3798-2/ Third Party Advisory