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SUSE: CVE-2015-8539: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

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SUSE: CVE-2015-8539: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
01/19/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
02/07/2016
Modified
02/04/2022

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.

Solution(s)

  • suse-upgrade-cluster-md-kmp-default
  • suse-upgrade-dlm-kmp-default
  • suse-upgrade-gfs2-kmp-default
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-default
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-docs
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-ec2
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-ec2-devel
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-ec2-extra
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-obs-build
  • suse-upgrade-ocfs2-kmp-default

References

  • SUSE-SU-2016:0168-1
  • SUSE-SU-2016:0335-1
  • SUSE-SU-2016:0336-1
  • SUSE-SU-2016:0337-1
  • SUSE-SU-2016:0339-1
  • SUSE-SU-2016:0380-1
  • SUSE-SU-2016:0381-1
  • SUSE-SU-2016:0383-1
  • SUSE-SU-2016:0384-1
  • SUSE-SU-2016:0386-1
  • SUSE-SU-2016:0387-1
  • SUSE-SU-2016:0434-1
  • SUSE-SU-2016:0585-1
  • SUSE-SU-2016:0911-1
  • SUSE-SU-2016:1102-1
  • SUSE-SU-2016:1203-1
  • SUSE-SU-2016:1937-1
  • SUSE-SU-2016:2074-1
  • USN-3798-1
  • USN-3798-2
  • CVE-2015-8539
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