CVE-2015-5157

Severity

72%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

165%

arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S in the Linux kernel before 4.1.6 on the x86_64 platform mishandles IRET faults in processing NMIs that occurred during userspace execution, which might allow local users to gain privileges by triggering an NMI.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 7.2. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C).

Overview

Type

Linux

First reported 9 years ago

2015-08-31 10:59:00

Last updated 8 years ago

2016-12-22 02:59:00

Affected Software

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6.0

6.0

RedHat Enterprise Linux HPC Node 6.0

6.0

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6.0

6.0

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6.0

6.0

Linux Kernel

References

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=9b6e6a8334d56354853f9c255d1395c2ba570e0a

SUSE-SU-2015:1727

SUSE-SU-2015:2108

SUSE-SU-2015:2339

SUSE-SU-2015:2350

SUSE-SU-2016:0354

RHSA-2016:0185

RHSA-2016:0212

RHSA-2016:0224

RHSA-2016:0715

DSA-3313

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.1.6

Vendor Advisory

[oss-security] 20150722 Linux x86_64 NMI security issues

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinapr2016-2952096.html

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjan2016-2867209.html

76005

USN-2687-1

USN-2688-1

USN-2689-1

USN-2690-1

USN-2691-1

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/9b6e6a8334d56354853f9c255d1395c2ba570e0a

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