CVE-2015-5327 (GCVE-0-2015-5327)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-09-25 21:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 06:41
VLAI
Summary
Out-of-bounds memory read in the x509_decode_time function in x509_cert_parser.c in Linux kernels 4.3-rc1 and after.
Severity
6.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2015-11-06 00:00
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