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CVE-2015-8950

16
FAUCET Score

CVE-2015-8950 describes an information disclosure vulnerability in the Linux kernel, specifically within the arch/arm64/mm/dma-mapping.c component, affecting versions prior to 4.0.3 and used in Android's ION subsystem. This medium-severity flaw (CVSS 5.5) allows local, unprivileged users to obtain sensitive kernel memory information by triggering a dma_mmap call due to uninitialized data structures. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 4.0.2CPE 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:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

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

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.46%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
70.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0146 is in the 81st percentile among its peer group of 5,760 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

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
googlevendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2015-8950Low

kernel: Missing cleaning of allocated buffers

Jan 28, 2016

References

git.kernel.org / cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit
Issue TrackingPatch
github.com / torvalds/linux/commit/6829e274a623187c24f7cfc0e3d35f25d087fcc5
Issue TrackingPatch
source.android.com / security/bulletin/2016-10-01.html
Vendor Advisory
source.codeaurora.org / quic/la/kernel/msm-3.10/commit
Issue TrackingPatch
kernel.org / pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.0.3
Release Notes
securityfocus.com / bid/93318