| Name | CVE-2015-2042 |
| Description | net/rds/sysctl.c in the Linux kernel before 3.19 uses an incorrect data type in a sysctl table, which allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel memory or possibly have unspecified other impact by accessing a sysctl entry. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-246-1, DSA-3237-1 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| linux (PTS) | bullseye | 5.10.223-1 | fixed |
| bullseye (security) | 5.10.226-1 | fixed |
| bookworm | 6.1.115-1 | fixed |
| bookworm (security) | 6.1.119-1 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 6.12.6-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
[squeeze] - linux-2.6 <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
Upstream commit: https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=db27ebb111e9f69efece08e4cb6a34ff980f8896 (v3.19)
(earliest) introduced in https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=3e5048495c8569bfdd552750e0315973c61e7c93 (v2.6.30-rc1)