fkie_cve-2015-8539
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd
Published
2016-02-08 03:59
Modified
2025-04-12 10:46
Severity ?
Summary
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.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | 12.04 | |
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | 14.04 | |
| suse | linux_enterprise_real_time_extension | 12 | |
| linux | linux_kernel | * | |
| linux | linux_kernel | 4.4 | |
| linux | linux_kernel | 4.4 |
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