CVE-2015-8950

Medium

Description

arch/arm64/mm/dma-mapping.c in the Linux kernel before 4.0.3, as used in the ION subsystem in Android and other products, does not initialize certain data structures, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory by triggering a dma_mmap call.

SeverityMedium
CVSS5.5
Exploit probability—
ProductLinux Kernel
PublishedOct 10, 2016
First seenOct 10, 2016

How to fix

Sources list no fixed version or patch link for this vulnerability.

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
linux linux_kernelv ≤ 4.0.2—

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