CVE-2015-6252
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Oct 19, 2015
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2024
- Reserved
- Aug 17, 2015
Description
The vhost_dev_ioctl function in drivers/vhost/vhost.c in the Linux kernel before 4.1.5 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a VHOST_SET_LOG_FD ioctl call that triggers permanent file-descriptor allocation.
Scores
The record has no CVSS score.
Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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n/an/a |
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References
- USN-2748-1vendor-advisory
- 76400vdb-entry
- USN-2751-1vendor-advisory
- [oss-security] 20150818 Re: CVE request: linux kernel:fd leak in vhost ioctl VHOST_SET_LOG_FDmailing-list
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.1.5
- DSA-3364vendor-advisory
- SUSE-SU-2015:1727vendor-advisory
- USN-2752-1vendor-advisory
- SUSE-SU-2016:0354vendor-advisory
- SUSE-SU-2015:2108vendor-advisory
- USN-2749-1vendor-advisory
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/7932c0bd7740f4cd2aa168d3ce0199e7af7d72d5
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1251839
- USN-2760-1vendor-advisory
- USN-2759-1vendor-advisory
- SUSE-SU-2016:2074vendor-advisory
- 1033666vdb-entry
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=7932c0bd7740f4cd2aa168d3ce0199e7af7d72d5
- USN-2777-1vendor-advisory
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