Detections
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CVE-2015-2666
high
Description
Stack-based buffer overflow in the get_matching_model_microcode function in arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/intel_early.c in the Linux kernel before 4.0 allows context-dependent attackers to gain privileges by constructing a crafted microcode header and leveraging root privileges for write access to the initrd.
References
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032414
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1534.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/153329.html