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CVE-2015-2672

16
FAUCET Score

CVE-2015-2672 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the Linux kernel's xsave/xrstor implementation, affecting versions prior to 3.19.2. A local attacker can trigger a kernel panic by providing malformed memory operands to these instructions, such as unaligned or non-canonical addresses. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.5 (Medium), indicating a low attack complexity and requiring local access to achieve high availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 3.19.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

5.5MEDIUM

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.36%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
29.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0037 is in the 85th percentile among its peer group of 15,940 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Patches (1)

github_advisoryvendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2015-2672Moderate

kernel: unprivileged denial-of-service due to mis-protected xsave/xrstor instructions

Mar 18, 2015

References

git.kernel.org / cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit
Vendor Advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
github.com / torvalds/linux/commit/06c8173eb92bbfc03a0fe8bb64315857d0badd06
Vendor Advisory
kernel.org / pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.19.2
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2015/03/22/1