UBUNTU-CVE-2015-7884

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2015-7884

    Published: 23 Oct 2015Last Modified: 4 Feb 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2015-7884
    Aliases:
    USN-2842-1
    USN-2842-2
    USN-2843-1

    Summary:

    Details: The vivid_fb_ioctl function in drivers/media/platform/vivid/vivid-osd.c in the Linux kernel through 4.3.3 does not initialize a certain structure member, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory via a crafted application.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-7884, https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/commit/?id=eda98796aff0d9bf41094b06811f5def3b4c333c, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2843-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2842-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2842-2, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2843-2, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2843-3, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-7884

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: linux-lts-vivid

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]~14.04.2?arch=source&distro=trusty

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -3.19.0-41.46~14.04.2

    Affected versions

    3.19.0-18.18~14.04.1
    3.19.0-20.20~14.04.1
    3.19.0-21.21~14.04.1
    3.19.0-22.22~14.04.1
    3.19.0-23.24~14.04.1
    3.19.0-25.26~14.04.1
    3.19.0-26.28~14.04.1
    3.19.0-28.30~14.04.1
    3.19.0-30.33~14.04.1
    3.19.0-30.34~14.04.1
    3.19.0-31.36~14.04.1
    3.19.0-32.37~14.04.1
    3.19.0-33.38~14.04.1
    3.19.0-37.42~14.04.1
    3.19.0-39.44~14.04.1

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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