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CVE-2015-8575
The sco_sock_bind function in net/bluetooth/sco.c in the Linux kernel before 4.3.4 does not verify an address length, which allows local…
- 4.0MediumCVSS base score
- 0.52%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 56% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
The sco_sock_bind function in net/bluetooth/sco.c in the Linux kernel before 4.3.4 does not verify an address length, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory and bypass the KASLR protection mechanism via a crafted application.
Timeline
ID reserved
By microfocus
- 54 days later
· 54 days later
Published
- 8 years later
· 8 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Medium4.0 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.52% · top 56% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.0.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
16
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1292840 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.3.4 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20151216 Re: CVE Request: Linux Kernel: information leak from getsockname (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- USN-2886-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- USN-2890-3 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/5233252fce714053f0151680933571a2da9cbfb4 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- SUSE-SU-2016:1102 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=5233252fce714053f0151680933571a2da9cbfb4 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 79724 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- FEDORA-2016-5d43766e33 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- SUSE-SU-2016:2074 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- USN-2890-2 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- USN-2890-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- DSA-3434 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- USN-2888-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- SUSE-SU-2016:0911 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_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)
- EUVD EUVD-2015-8453 (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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