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CVE-2015-6252

Description

The vhost_dev_ioctl function in drivers/vhost/vhost.c in the Linux kernel before 4.1.5 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a VHOST_SET_LOG_FD ioctl call that triggers permanent file-descriptor allocation.

Risk Information

Base Score
7.1
MODERATE
Vector
AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score
Exploitation Probability
0.087

Associated Vulnerability

VulnerabilityOS Platform
Linux kernel (USN-2748-1) linux-image-3.13.0-65-generic_3.13.0-65.106_i386.debLinux
Linux kernel (USN-2748-1) linux-image-3.13.0-65-generic_3.13.0-65.106_amd64.debLinux
Linux kernel (USN-2748-1) linux-image-3.13.0-65-lowlatency_3.13.0-65.106_i386.debLinux
Linux kernel (USN-2748-1) linux-image-3.13.0-65-lowlatency_3.13.0-65.106_amd64.debLinux
Linux hardware enablement kernel from Trusty (USN-2749-1) linux-image-3.13.0-65-generic_3.13.0-65.106~precise1_i386.debLinux
Linux hardware enablement kernel from Trusty (USN-2749-1) linux-image-3.13.0-65-generic_3.13.0-65.106~precise1_amd64.debLinux
Linux hardware enablement kernel from Vivid (USN-2751-1) linux-image-3.19.0-30-generic_3.19.0-30.34~14.04.1_i386.debLinux
Linux hardware enablement kernel from Vivid (USN-2751-1) linux-image-3.19.0-30-generic_3.19.0-30.34~14.04.1_amd64.debLinux
Linux hardware enablement kernel from Vivid (USN-2751-1) linux-image-3.19.0-30-lowlatency_3.19.0-30.34~14.04.1_i386.debLinux
Linux hardware enablement kernel from Vivid (USN-2751-1) linux-image-3.19.0-30-lowlatency_3.19.0-30.34~14.04.1_amd64.debLinux
Linux kernel (USN-2752-1) linux-image-3.19.0-30-generic_3.19.0-30.34_i386.debLinux
Linux kernel (USN-2752-1) linux-image-3.19.0-30-generic_3.19.0-30.34_amd64.debLinux
Linux kernel (USN-2752-1) linux-image-3.19.0-30-lowlatency_3.19.0-30.34_i386.debLinux
Linux kernel (USN-2752-1) linux-image-3.19.0-30-lowlatency_3.19.0-30.34_amd64.debLinux
Linux kernel (USN-2759-1) linux-image-3.2.0-91-generic_3.2.0-91.129_i386.debLinux
Linux kernel (USN-2759-1) linux-image-3.2.0-91-generic_3.2.0-91.129_amd64.debLinux
Linux kernel (USN-2759-1) linux-image-3.2.0-91-virtual_3.2.0-91.129_i386.debLinux
Linux kernel (USN-2759-1) linux-image-3.2.0-91-virtual_3.2.0-91.129_amd64.debLinux
Linux kernel (USN-2759-1) linux-image-3.2.0-91-generic-pae_3.2.0-91.129_i386.debLinux
Linux hardware enablement kernel from Utopic (USN-2777-1) linux-image-3.16.0-51-generic_3.16.0-51.69~14.04.1_i386.debLinux
Linux hardware enablement kernel from Utopic (USN-2777-1) linux-image-3.16.0-51-generic_3.16.0-51.69~14.04.1_amd64.debLinux
Linux hardware enablement kernel from Utopic (USN-2777-1) linux-image-3.16.0-51-lowlatency_3.16.0-51.69~14.04.1_i386.debLinux
Linux hardware enablement kernel from Utopic (USN-2777-1) linux-image-3.16.0-51-lowlatency_3.16.0-51.69~14.04.1_amd64.debLinux
SUSE-SU-2015:2108-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP3 ) kernel-bigsmp-3.0.101-0.47.71.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2015:2108-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP3 ) kernel-bigsmp-base-3.0.101-0.47.71.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2015:2108-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11-SP3 ) kernel-bigsmp-devel-3.0.101-0.47.71.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2015:2108-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11-SP3 ) kernel-default-3.0.101-0.47.71.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2015:2108-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11-SP3 ) kernel-default-base-3.0.101-0.47.71.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2015:2108-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11-SP3 ) kernel-default-devel-3.0.101-0.47.71.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2015:2108-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11-SP3 ) kernel-default-extra-3.0.101-0.47.71.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2015:2108-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP3 ) kernel-ec2-3.0.101-0.47.71.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2015:2108-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP3 ) kernel-ec2-base-3.0.101-0.47.71.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2015:2108-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP3 ) kernel-ec2-devel-3.0.101-0.47.71.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2015:2108-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11-SP3 ) kernel-pae-3.0.101-0.47.71.1.i586.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2015:2108-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11-SP3 ) kernel-pae-base-3.0.101-0.47.71.1.i586.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2015:2108-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11-SP3 ) kernel-pae-devel-3.0.101-0.47.71.1.i586.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2015:2108-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11-SP3 ) kernel-pae-extra-3.0.101-0.47.71.1.i586.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2015:2108-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11-SP3 ) kernel-source-3.0.101-0.47.71.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2015:2108-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11-SP3 ) kernel-syms-3.0.101-0.47.71.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2015:2108-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP3 ) kernel-trace-3.0.101-0.47.71.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2015:2108-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP3 ) kernel-trace-base-3.0.101-0.47.71.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2015:2108-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11-SP3 ) kernel-trace-devel-3.0.101-0.47.71.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2015:2108-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11-SP3 ) kernel-xen-3.0.101-0.47.71.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2015:2108-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11-SP3 ) kernel-xen-base-3.0.101-0.47.71.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2015:2108-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11-SP3 ) kernel-xen-devel-3.0.101-0.47.71.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
SUSE-SU-2015:2108-1(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11-SP3 ) kernel-xen-extra-3.0.101-0.47.71.1.x86_64.rpmLinux
Dtrace-modules-3.8.13-118.18.2.el6uek update (ELSA-2017-3566) dtrace-modules-3.8.13-118.18.2.el6uek-0.4.5-3.el6.x86_64.rpmLinux
Dtrace-modules-3.8.13-118.18.2.el7uek update (ELSA-2017-3566) dtrace-modules-3.8.13-118.18.2.el7uek-0.4.5-3.el7.x86_64.rpmLinux

Patch Details

No records found

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1234
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-1234