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CVE-2015-8956

Published: Oct 10, 2016

Modified: Aug 6, 2024

PUBLISHED

Description

The rfcomm_sock_bind function in net/bluetooth/rfcomm/sock.c in the Linux kernel before 4.2 allows local users to obtain sensitive information or cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) via vectors involving a bind system call on a Bluetooth RFCOMM socket.

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

References

http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-10-01.html

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vendor-advisory

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vendor-advisory

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http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=951b6a0717db97ce420547222647bcc40bf1eacd

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vdb-entry

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https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/951b6a0717db97ce420547222647bcc40bf1eacd

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