CVE-2015-5231

Impact:
Low
Public Date:
2015-08-25
Bugzilla:
1256728: CVE-2015-5231 criu: service daemon allows to bypass ptrace policy

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

The service daemon in CRIU does not properly restrict access to non-dumpable processes, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information via (1) process dumps or (2) ptrace access.

Find out more about CVE-2015-5231 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score 2.1
Base Metrics AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Access Vector Local
Access Complexity Low
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Partial
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact None

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Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 criu Will not fix

Acknowledgements

This issue was discovered by Florian Weimer of Red Hat Product Security.

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