CVE-2015-8575

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.0 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-02-08 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-200

Description

The sco_sock_bind function in net/bluetooth/sco.c in the Linux kernel before 4.3.4 does not verify an address length, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory and bypass the KASLR protection mechanism via a crafted application.

Affected products

Linux kernel: through 4.3.3

References

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=5233252fce714053f0151680933571a2da9cbfb4
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/176484.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00094.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00045.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00038.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3434
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.3.4
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/16/3
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/79724
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2886-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2888-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2890-1

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