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CVE-2015-8956

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.2% 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-476

Description

The rfcomm_sock_bind function in net/bluetooth/rfcomm/sock.c in the Linux kernel before 4.2 allows local users to obtain sensitive information or cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) via vectors involving a bind system call on a Bluetooth RFCOMM socket.

Affected products

• Android: through 7.0
• Linux kernel: through 4.1.33

References

• http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=951b6a0717db97ce420547222647bcc40bf1eacd
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2574.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2584.html
• http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-10-01.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93326
• https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/951b6a0717db97ce420547222647bcc40bf1eacd
• http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=951b6a0717db97ce420547222647bcc40bf1eacd
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2574.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2584.html
• http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-10-01.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93326
• https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/951b6a0717db97ce420547222647bcc40bf1eacd

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