Privilege escalation vulnerability in Linux kernel 3.19 before 3.19.3

CVE-2015-2686 · HIGH Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

net/socket.c in the Linux kernel 3.19 before 3.19.3 does not validate certain range data for (1) sendto and (2) recvfrom system calls, which allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging a subsystem that uses the copy_from_iter function in the iov_iter interface, as demonstrated by the Bluetooth subsystem.

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