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CVE-2015-8950

arch/arm64/mm/dma-mapping.c in the Linux kernel before 4.0.3, as used in the ION subsystem in Android and other products, does not initializ

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Summary

arch/arm64/mm/dma-mapping.c in the Linux kernel before 4.0.3, as used in the ION subsystem in Android and other products, does not initialize certain data structures, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory by triggering a dma_mmap call.

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References 6

source.codeaurora.org

GitHub · torvalds/linux

source.android.com

securityfocus.com

kernel.org

git.kernel.org