UBUNTU-CVE-2015-8950

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2015-8950

    Published: 10 Oct 2016Last Modified: 8 Sept 2025
    Upstream:
    CVE-2015-8950

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-8950, http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=6829e274a623187c24f7cfc0e3d35f25d087fcc5, http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-10-01.html, http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.0.3, https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm-3.10/commit/?id=6e2c437a2d0a85d90d3db85a7471f99764f7bbf8, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-8950

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: linux-lts-vivid

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]~14.04.1?arch=source&distro=trusty

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -3.19.0-22.22~14.04.1

    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

    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