CVE-2015-5228

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-06-07 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

The service daemon in CRIU creates log and dump files insecurely, which allows local users to create arbitrary files and take ownership of existing files via unspecified vectors related to a directory path.

Affected products

Criu Checkpoint/Restore In Userspace: all versions
Opensuse: 13.2

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-09/msg00030.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/25/5
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1255782
https://lists.openvz.org/pipermail/criu/2015-August/021847.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-09/msg00030.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/25/5
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1255782
https://lists.openvz.org/pipermail/criu/2015-August/021847.html

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