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CVE-2015-8539
HIGH · CVSS 7.8
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2016-02-08T03:59:03.903 · Last modified 2026-06-17T00:34:42.417

Summary

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.

Affected products

canonical — ubuntu_linux

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References

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