PT-2016-4076
CVE-2015-8964
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Published
2016-03-17
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Updated
2017-07-21
Description by
CVSS 2.0
7.1
HighMetricsAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions
Linux kernel versions prior to 4.5
Description
The issue allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory by reading a tty data structure, specifically through the tty set termios ldisc function in drivers/tty/tty ldisc.c.
Recommendations
For Linux kernel versions prior to 4.5, update to version 4.5 or later to resolve the issue.
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