Security Advisory

CVE-2015-8709

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2016-02-08 02:00:00

Last updated 2024-08-06 08:29:20

Assigner debian

CVSS score not scored

State PUBLISHED

Description

kernel/ptrace.c in the Linux kernel through 4.4.1 mishandles uid and gid mappings, which allows local users to gain privileges by establishing a user namespace, waiting for a root process to enter that namespace with an unsafe uid or gid, and then using the ptrace system call. NOTE: the vendor states "there is no kernel bug here.

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