CVEvulnerability
CVE-2015-8950
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2016-10-10
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-200
Description
arch/arm64/mm/dma-mapping.c in the Linux kernel before 4.0.3, as used in the ION subsystem in Android and other products, does not initialize certain data structures, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory by triggering a dma_mmap call.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (<= 4.0.2)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor weakness
References
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=6829e274a623187c24f7cfc0e3d35f25d087fcc5 Issue Tracking, Patch
- http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-10-01.html Vendor Advisory
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.0.3 Release Notes
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93318 www.securityfocus.com
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/6829e274a623187c24f7cfc0e3d35f25d087fcc5 Issue Tracking, Patch
- https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm-3.10/commit/?id=6e2c437a2d0a85d90d3db85a7471f99764f7bbf8 Issue Tracking, Patch
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=6829e274a623187c24f7cfc0e3d35f25d087fcc5 Issue Tracking, Patch
- http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-10-01.html Vendor Advisory
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.0.3 Release Notes
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93318 www.securityfocus.com
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/6829e274a623187c24f7cfc0e3d35f25d087fcc5 Issue Tracking, Patch
- https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm-3.10/commit/?id=6e2c437a2d0a85d90d3db85a7471f99764f7bbf8 Issue Tracking, Patch