CVE-2015-8956

Description

The rfcomm_sock_bind function in net/bluetooth/rfcomm/sock.c in the Linux kernel before 4.2 allows local users to obtain sensitive information or cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) via vectors involving a bind system call on a Bluetooth RFCOMM socket.

References

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/951b6a0717db97ce420547222647bcc40bf1eacd

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93326

http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-10-01.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2584.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2574.html

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=951b6a0717db97ce420547222647bcc40bf1eacd

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3