CVE-2015-0568 Use after free in n/a

What is CVE-2015-0568?

CVE-2015-0568 is a high-severity use after free vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 7 Aug 2016. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the msm_set_crop function in drivers/media/video/msm/msm_camera.c in the MSM-Camera driver for the Linux kernel 3.x, as used in Qualcomm Innovation Center (QuIC) Android contributions for MSM devices and other products, allows attackers to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via an application that makes a crafted ioctl call.

Weakness: CWE-416

Which versions are affected by CVE-2015-0568?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2015-0568?

No fix has been published for CVE-2015-0568 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade to the fixed version. These bugs are found with fuzzing and sanitisers and avoided by memory-safe languages. More about Use after free.

Is CVE-2015-0568 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-0568 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Public exploit code: 1 proofs of concept on GitHub.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-m8wq-c42p-jw5v.