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CVE-2015-2666

Published: May 27, 2015

Modified: Aug 6, 2024

PUBLISHED

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in the get_matching_model_microcode function in arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/intel_early.c in the Linux kernel before 4.0 allows context-dependent attackers to gain privileges by constructing a crafted microcode header and leveraging root privileges for write access to the initrd.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	affected `n/a`

References

FEDORA-2015-4457

vendor-advisory

x_refsource_FEDORA

vdb-entry

x_refsource_SECTRACK

[oss-security] 20150320 Re: CVE Request: Linux kernel execution in the early microcode loader.

mailing-list

x_refsource_MLIST

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/f84598bd7c851f8b0bf8cd0d7c3be0d73c432ff4

x_refsource_CONFIRM

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=f84598bd7c851f8b0bf8cd0d7c3be0d73c432ff4

x_refsource_CONFIRM

vendor-advisory

x_refsource_REDHAT

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1204722

x_refsource_CONFIRM

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