The KEYS subsystem in the Linux kernel before 4.4 allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (BUG) via crafted keyctl commands that negatively instantiate a key, related to security/keys/encrypted-keys/encrypted.c, security/keys/trusted.c, and security/keys/user_defined.c.
References
Link Resource
http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=096fe9eaea40a17e125569f9e657e34cdb6d73bd Vendor Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00007.html Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00008.html Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00009.html Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00011.html Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00017.html Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00018.html Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00019.html Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00020.html Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00021.html Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00022.html Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00034.html Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00094.html Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00045.html Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00000.html Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00038.html Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/09/1 Issue Tracking Mailing List Patch Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0151 Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0152 Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0181 Third Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1284450 Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/096fe9eaea40a17e125569f9e657e34cdb6d73bd Issue Tracking Patch Vendor Advisory
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3798-1/ Third Party Advisory
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3798-2/ Third Party Advisory
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cve-icon MITRE Information

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2016-02-08T02:00:00

Updated: 2018-10-30T09:57:01

Reserved: 2015-12-10T00:00:00


Link: CVE-2015-8539

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cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2016-02-08T03:59:03.903

Modified: 2022-01-31T17:51:54.560


Link: CVE-2015-8539

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CWE