Security Advisory

CVE-2015-8539

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2016-02-08 02:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-06 08:20:42
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

Description

The KEYS subsystem in the Linux kernel before 4.4 allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (BUG) via crafted keyctl commands that negatively instantiate a key, related to security/keys/encrypted-keys/encrypted.c, security/keys/trusted.c, and security/keys/user_defined.c.