CVE-2015-8956

medium

Description

The rfcomm_sock_bind function in net/bluetooth/rfcomm/sock.c in the Linux kernel before 4.2 allows local users to obtain sensitive information or cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) via vectors involving a bind system call on a Bluetooth RFCOMM socket.

References

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=951b6a0717db97ce420547222647bcc40bf1eacd

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2574.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2584.html

http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-10-01.html

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93326

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/951b6a0717db97ce420547222647bcc40bf1eacd

Details

Source: MITRE

Published: 2016-10-10

Updated: 2018-01-05

Type: CWE-476

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 3.6

Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P

Impact Score: 4.9

Exploitability Score: 3.9

Severity: LOW

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:L

Impact Score: 4.2

Exploitability Score: 1.8

Severity: MEDIUM