CVE-2015-8950

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux kernel versions prior to 4.0.3

Description The issue allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory. This is due to the failure to initialize certain data structures in the arch/arm64/mm/dma-mapping.c file, which can be exploited by triggering a dma mmap call.

Recommendations For Linux kernel versions prior to 4.0.3, update to version 4.0.3 or later to resolve the issue.