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HistoryDec 17, 2015 - 12:00 a.m.

Linux kernel vulnerabilities

2015-12-1700:00:00
ubuntu.com
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CVSS2

4.7

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

COMPLETE

AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

AI Score

5.3

Confidence

High

EPSS

0.001

Percentile

42.0%

Releases

  • Ubuntu 12.04

Packages

  • linux - Linux kernel

Details

Dmitry Vyukov discovered that the Linux kernel’s keyring handler attempted
to garbage collect incompletely instantiated keys. A local unprivileged
attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash).
(CVE-2015-7872)

Jan Beulich discovered that the KVM svm hypervisor implementation in the
Linux kernel did not properly catch Debug exceptions on AMD processors. An
attacker in a guest virtual machine could use this to cause a denial of
service (system crash) in the host OS. (CVE-2015-8104)

CVSS2

4.7

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

COMPLETE

AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

AI Score

5.3

Confidence

High

EPSS

0.001

Percentile

42.0%