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Tracker / CVE-2015-3288

CVE-2015-3288

High 7.8

mm/memory.c in the Linux kernel before 4.1.4 mishandles anonymous pages, which allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (page tainting) via a crafted application that triggers writing to page zero.

Affected products and versions

linux linux_kernel · … → 3.2.71
linux linux_kernel · 3.10 → 3.10.86
linux linux_kernel · 3.12 → 3.12.47
linux linux_kernel · 3.14 → 3.14.50
linux linux_kernel · 3.16 → 3.16.35
linux linux_kernel · 3.18 → 3.18.52
linux linux_kernel · 3.4 → 3.4.111
linux linux_kernel · 4.1.0 → 4.1.4

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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