cve/2015/CVE-2015-8539.md

### [CVE-2015-8539](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-8539)
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### Description

The KEYS subsystem in the Linux kernel before 4.4 allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (BUG) via crafted keyctl commands that negatively instantiate a key, related to security/keys/encrypted-keys/encrypted.c, security/keys/trusted.c, and security/keys/user_defined.c.

### POC

#### Reference
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#### Github
- https://github.com/thdusdl1219/CVE-Study