CVE-2015-6252 (GCVE-0-2015-6252)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2015-10-19 10:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 07:15
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
The vhost_dev_ioctl function in drivers/vhost/vhost.c in the Linux kernel before 4.1.5 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a VHOST_SET_LOG_FD ioctl call that triggers permanent file-descriptor allocation.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
19 references
Date Public
2015-08-10 00:00
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}
}
}
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vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
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The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
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The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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