CVSS 3.0
5.5 mediumCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:NCVE-2015-8950
arch/arm64/mm/dma-mapping.c in the Linux kernel before 4.0.3, as used in the ION subsystem in Android and other products, does not initialize certain data structures, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory by triggering a dma_mmap call.
Severity
- EPSS
- 1.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 73% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-200
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- linux:linux_kernel
References
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=6829e274a623187c24f7cfc0e3d35f25d087fcc5
- http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-10-01.html
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.0.3
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93318
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/6829e274a623187c24f7cfc0e3d35f25d087fcc5