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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

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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