Security Advisory

CVE-2015-8569

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2015-12-28 11:00:00

Last updated 2024-08-06 08:20:43

Assigner microfocus

CVSS score not scored

State PUBLISHED

Description

The (1) pptp_bind and (2) pptp_connect functions in drivers/net/ppp/pptp.c in the Linux kernel through 4.3.3 do not verify an address length, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory and bypass the KASLR protection mechanism via a crafted application.

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