The InfiniBand (IB) implementation in the Linux kernel package before 2.6.32-504.12.2 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6 does not…

Description

The InfiniBand (IB) implementation in the Linux kernel package before 2.6.32-504.12.2 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6 does not properly restrict use of User Verbs for registration of memory regions, which allows local users to access arbitrary physical memory locations, and consequently cause a denial of service (system crash) or gain privileges, by leveraging permissions on a uverbs device under /dev/infiniband/.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

0.42% · top 63% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.9.

Weakness

• n/a
• CWE-264 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-264 and its CVEs

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (27)

• RHSA-2015:0783 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• SUSE-SU-2015:1491 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
• USN-2529-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
• USN-2530-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
• RHSA-2015:0695 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• SUSE-SU-2015:1489 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
• SUSE-SU-2015:1488 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
• USN-2561-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
• RHSA-2015:0751 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• RHSA-2015:0803 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• DSA-3237 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
• USN-2528-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
• USN-2527-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
• RHSA-2015:0919 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• RHSA-2015:0782 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• USN-2526-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
• SUSE-SU-2015:1478 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
• FEDORA-2015-4066 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
• 1032224 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
• 73060 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1181166 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• USN-2525-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
• http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10705 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• RHSA-2015:0870 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• SUSE-SU-2015:1487 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
• RHSA-2015:0726 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• RHSA-2015:0674 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

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Record last updated 6 Aug 2024, 13:10 UTC.