Tracker / CVE-2015-8539
CVE-2015-8539
High 7.8
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.
Affected products and versions
| canonical | ubuntu_linux |
|---|---|
| linux | linux_kernel |
| linux | linux_kernel · … → 4.4 |
| suse | linux_enterprise_real_time_extension |
Analysis
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