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
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