PT-2015-7042
CVE-2015-5697
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Published
2015-08-07
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Updated
2017-09-21
Description by
CVSS 2.0
2.1
LowMetricsAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions
Linux kernel versions prior to 4.1.6
Description
The issue allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory. This is due to the
get bitmap file function in drivers/md/md.c not initializing a certain bitmap data structure, which can be exploited via a GET BITMAP FILE ioctl call.Recommendations
For Linux kernel versions prior to 4.1.6, update to version 4.1.6 or later to resolve the issue.
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