What is CVE-2015-5231?

CVE-2015-5231 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Criu Checkpoint\/restore In Userspace, classified under Information Disclosure. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2016-06-07.

How severe is CVE-2015-5231?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.

Information disclosure in Criu Checkpoint\/restore In Userspace

CVE-2015-5231

The service daemon in CRIU does not properly restrict access to non-dumpable processes, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information via (1) process dumps or (2) ptrace access.

Vulnerability class: Information Disclosure

EPSS: 0.004 (30.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N.

Affected products

Criu Checkpoint\/restore_in_userspace
Opensuse — versions 13.2
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-200 — Information Disclosure

References

secalert@redhat.com (mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST)
secalert@redhat.com (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_SUSE)
secalert@redhat.com (Vendor Advisory, mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST)
secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2015-5231?: CVE-2015-5231 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Criu Checkpoint\/restore In Userspace, classified under Information Disclosure. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2016-06-07.
How severe is CVE-2015-5231?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.