CVEvulnerability
CVE-2015-8964
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2016-11-16
- 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])
- 7.1 HIGH — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-200
Description
The tty_set_termios_ldisc function in drivers/tty/tty_ldisc.c in the Linux kernel before 4.5 allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory by reading a tty data structure.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (<= 4.4.32)
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=dd42bf1197144ede075a9d4793123f7689e164bc Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-11-01.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94138 www.securityfocus.com
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/dd42bf1197144ede075a9d4793123f7689e164bc Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=dd42bf1197144ede075a9d4793123f7689e164bc Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-11-01.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94138 www.securityfocus.com
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/dd42bf1197144ede075a9d4793123f7689e164bc Patch, Vendor Advisory