CVE-2015-2666
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- May 27, 2015
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2024
- Reserved
- Mar 20, 2015
Description
Stack-based buffer overflow in the get_matching_model_microcode function in arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/intel_early.c in the Linux kernel before 4.0 allows context-dependent attackers to gain privileges by constructing a crafted microcode header and leveraging root privileges for write access to the initrd.
Scores
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Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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References
- FEDORA-2015-4457vendor-advisory
- 1032414vdb-entry
- [oss-security] 20150320 Re: CVE Request: Linux kernel execution in the early microcode loader.mailing-list
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/f84598bd7c851f8b0bf8cd0d7c3be0d73c432ff4
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=f84598bd7c851f8b0bf8cd0d7c3be0d73c432ff4
- RHSA-2015:1534vendor-advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1204722
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