CVEvulnerability

CVE-2015-8709

7.0 HIGH Published 2016-02-08 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2016-02-08
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
7.0 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-264

Description

kernel/ptrace.c in the Linux kernel through 4.4.1 mishandles uid and gid mappings, which allows local users to gain privileges by establishing a user namespace, waiting for a root process to enter that namespace with an unsafe uid or gid, and then using the ptrace system call. NOTE: the vendor states "there is no kernel bug here.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (<= 4.4.1)

Related

Weakness · not in database (1)

References