CVE-2015-6252

Severity

21%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

48%

The vhost_dev_ioctl function in drivers/vhost/vhost.c in the Linux kernel before 4.1.5 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a VHOST_SET_LOG_FD ioctl call that triggers permanent file-descriptor allocation.

The vhost_dev_ioctl function in drivers/vhost/vhost.c in the Linux kernel before 4.1.5 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a VHOST_SET_LOG_FD ioctl call that triggers permanent file-descriptor allocation.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 2.1. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P).

Overview

First reported 9 years ago

2015-10-19 10:59:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-11-04 01:29:00

Affected Software

Linux Kernel

References

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=7932c0bd7740f4cd2aa168d3ce0199e7af7d72d5

SUSE-SU-2015:1727

SUSE-SU-2015:2108

SUSE-SU-2016:0354

SUSE-SU-2016:2074

DSA-3364

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.1.5

[oss-security] 20150818 Re: CVE request: linux kernel:fd leak in vhost ioctl VHOST_SET_LOG_FD

76400

1033666

USN-2748-1

USN-2749-1

USN-2751-1

USN-2752-1

USN-2759-1

USN-2760-1

USN-2777-1

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1251839

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/7932c0bd7740f4cd2aa168d3ce0199e7af7d72d5

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