CVE-2015-8964

Description

The tty_set_termios_ldisc function in drivers/tty/tty_ldisc.c in the Linux kernel before 4.5 allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory by reading a tty data structure.

References

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/dd42bf1197144ede075a9d4793123f7689e164bc

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94138

http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-11-01.html

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=dd42bf1197144ede075a9d4793123f7689e164bc

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3