Privilege escalation in Linux kernel - CVE-2017-15868

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Privilege escalation in Linux kernel - CVE-2017-15868

Published: January 11, 2018


Vulnerability identifier: #VU9959
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 8.5 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-15868
CWE-ID: CWE-264
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a local user to elevate privileges on the system.

The vulnerability exists due to abet check of l2cap socket availability in the bnep_add_connection() function in net/bluetooth/bnep/core.c. A local user can execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges.

Affected software

Linux kernel
Debian Linux
SUSE Linux
Ubuntu

How to mitigate CVE-2017-15868

Update to version 3.19.


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