Race condition in Linux kernel - CVE-2015-0572
Published: October 10, 2016 / Updated: August 4, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU95700
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2015-0572
CWE-ID: CWE-362
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: Linux Foundation
Affected software:
Linux kernel
Linux kernel
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a local user to execute arbitrary code.
Multiple race conditions in drivers/char/adsprpc.c and drivers/char/adsprpc_compat.c in the ADSPRPC driver for the Linux kernel 3.x, as used in Qualcomm Innovation Center (QuIC) Android contributions for MSM devices and other products, allow attackers to cause a denial of service (zero-value write) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a COMPAT_FASTRPC_IOCTL_INVOKE_FD ioctl call.
How to mitigate CVE-2015-0572
Install update from vendor's repository.
Sources
- http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-10-01.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93312
- https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm/commit/?id=8fb32c3a8147b82e2bb159b3f70d803c9e68899b
- https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm-3.10/commit/?id=34ad3d34fbff11b8e1210b9da0dac937fb956b61
- https://www.codeaurora.org/race-condition-leading-arbitrary-null-write-adsp-using-ioctl-compatfastrpcioctlinvokefd-cve-2015