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A vulnerability was found in Linux Kernel 4.5 (Operating System). It has been rated as critical. This issue affects an unknown functionality of the component in-flight fds. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a resource management vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-399. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
The weakness was shared 02/22/2016 by Hannes Frederic Sowa as confirmed mailinglist post (oss-sec). The advisory is shared at seclists.org. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2016-2550 since 02/23/2016. The exploitation is known to be easy. An attack has to be approached locally. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available.
The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 90507 (Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : linux-lts-utopic regression (USN-2948-2)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Ubuntu Local Security Checks and running in the context l. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 196446 (Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux-lts-vivid Vulnerabilities (USN-2949-1)).
Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at git.kernel.org. A possible mitigation has been published 2 months after the disclosure of the vulnerability.
The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (110990) and Tenable (90507). seclists.org is providing further details. The entries 82952 and 82962 are related to this item.
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CPE 2.3
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CVSSv4
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CVSSv3
VulDB Meta Base Score: 7.7VulDB Meta Temp Score: 7.0
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Exploiting
Class: Resource managementCWE: CWE-399 / CWE-404
ATT&CK: Unknown
Local: Yes
Remote: No
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Status: Unproven
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Nessus ID: 90507
Nessus Name: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : linux-lts-utopic regression (USN-2948-2)
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OpenVAS ID: 80009
OpenVAS Name: Ubuntu Update for linux-lts-vivid USN-2949-1
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Patch: git.kernel.org
Timeline
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Sources
Vendor: kernel.orgAdvisory: USN-2948-2
Researcher: Hannes Frederic Sowa
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2016-2550 (🔍)
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X-Force: 110990 - Linux Kernel in-flight fds denial of service
Vulnerability Center: 56725 - Linux Kernel before 4.4.1 Local DoS in Unix Domain Socket Related to in-flight fds, Medium
SecurityFocus: 83355 - Linux Kernel 'unix/af_unix.c' Denial of Service Vulnerability
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Entry
Created: 02/26/2016 09:45Updated: 07/08/2022 14:31
Changes: 02/26/2016 09:45 (79), 08/23/2018 08:23 (14), 07/08/2022 14:30 (4), 07/08/2022 14:31 (1)
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