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CVE-2015-8950

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2016-10-10 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-200

Description

arch/arm64/mm/dma-mapping.c in the Linux kernel before 4.0.3, as used in the ION subsystem in Android and other products, does not initialize certain data structures, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory by triggering a dma_mmap call.

Affected products

• Linux kernel: through 4.0.2

References

• http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=6829e274a623187c24f7cfc0e3d35f25d087fcc5
• http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-10-01.html
• http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.0.3
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93318
• https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/6829e274a623187c24f7cfc0e3d35f25d087fcc5
• https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm-3.10/commit/?id=6e2c437a2d0a85d90d3db85a7471f99764f7bbf8
• http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=6829e274a623187c24f7cfc0e3d35f25d087fcc5
• http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-10-01.html
• http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.0.3
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93318
• https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/6829e274a623187c24f7cfc0e3d35f25d087fcc5
• https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm-3.10/commit/?id=6e2c437a2d0a85d90d3db85a7471f99764f7bbf8

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