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Tracker / CVE-2015-2666

CVE-2015-2666

Medium 6.9

Stack-based buffer overflow in the get_matching_model_microcode function in arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/intel_early.c in the Linux kernel before 4.0 allows context-dependent attackers to gain privileges by constructing a crafted microcode header and leveraging root privileges for write access to the initrd.

Affected products and versions

fedoraproject fedora
linux linux_kernel · 3.11 → 3.12.40
linux linux_kernel · 3.13 → 3.14.47
linux linux_kernel · 3.15 → 3.16.35
linux linux_kernel · 3.17 → 3.18.19
linux linux_kernel · 3.9 → 3.10.83

Analysis

This page is not indexable yet.Until it carries original analysis — what it actually exposes, how to check in two minutes whether a system was touched, what to do if it was — the page stays noindex. The database decides that, not the template.

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