Information Exposure Affecting kernel-rt-doc package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

Based on CentOS security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.07% (34th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CENTOS7-KERNELRTDOC-1951944
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed27 Nov 2015

Introduced: 27 Nov 2015

CVE-2015-8964  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)
First added by Snyk

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Centos:7 kernel-rt-doc.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-rt-doc package and not the kernel-rt-doc package as distributed by Centos. See How to fix? for Centos:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

The tty_set_termios_ldisc function in drivers/tty/tty_ldisc.c in the Linux kernel before 4.5 allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory by reading a tty data structure.