CVE-2015-7884

Severity: low (CVSS 2.3 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: 2015-12-28 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-200

Description

The vivid_fb_ioctl function in drivers/media/platform/vivid/vivid-osd.c in the Linux kernel through 4.3.3 does not initialize a certain structure member, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory via a crafted application.

Affected products

Linux kernel: through 4.3.2

References

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=eda98796aff0d9bf41094b06811f5def3b4c333c
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00015.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/10/21/8
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/77317
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034893
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2842-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2842-2
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2843-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2843-2
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2843-3
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1274726
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/eda98796aff0d9bf41094b06811f5def3b4c333c

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