CVE-2015-8964

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: 2016-11-16 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-200

Description

The tty_set_termios_ldisc function in drivers/tty/tty_ldisc.c in the Linux kernel before 4.5 allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory by reading a tty data structure.

Affected products

Linux kernel: through 4.4.32

References

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=dd42bf1197144ede075a9d4793123f7689e164bc
http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-11-01.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94138
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/dd42bf1197144ede075a9d4793123f7689e164bc
http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=dd42bf1197144ede075a9d4793123f7689e164bc
http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-11-01.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94138
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/dd42bf1197144ede075a9d4793123f7689e164bc

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