net/socket.c in the Linux kernel 3.19 before 3.19.3 does not validate certain range data for (1) sendto and (2) recvfrom system calls, which allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging a subsystem that uses the copy_from_iter function in the iov_iter interface, as demonstrated by the Bluetooth subsystem.
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EUVD |
EUVD-2015-2777 | net/socket.c in the Linux kernel 3.19 before 3.19.3 does not validate certain range data for (1) sendto and (2) recvfrom system calls, which allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging a subsystem that uses the copy_from_iter function in the iov_iter interface, as demonstrated by the Bluetooth subsystem. |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published:
Updated: 2024-08-06T05:24:38.286Z
Reserved: 2015-03-23T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2015-2686
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Status : Deferred
Published: 2016-05-02T10:59:11.453
Modified: 2025-04-12T10:46:40.837
Link: CVE-2015-2686
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