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CVE-2015-5327

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-09-25 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-125

Description

Out-of-bounds memory read in the x509_decode_time function in x509_cert_parser.c in Linux kernels 4.3-rc1 and after.

Affected products

• Linux kernel: 4.3, 4.3-rc1, 4.3-rc2, 4.3-rc3, 4.3-rc4, 4.3-rc5 (+2)

References

• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/11/27/1
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1278978
• https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=cc25b994acfbc901429da682d0f73c190e960206
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/11/27/1
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1278978
• https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=cc25b994acfbc901429da682d0f73c190e960206

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