{ "CVE_data_meta": { "ASSIGNER": "cert@cert.org", "ID": "CVE-2015-2877", "STATE": "PUBLIC" }, "affects": { "vendor": { "vendor_data": [ { "product": { "product_data": [ { "product_name": "n/a", "version": { "version_data": [ { "version_value": "n/a" } ] } } ] }, "vendor_name": "n/a" } ] } }, "data_format": "MITRE", "data_type": "CVE", "data_version": "4.0", "description": { "description_data": [ { "lang": "eng", "value": "** DISPUTED ** Kernel Samepage Merging (KSM) in the Linux kernel 2.6.32 through 4.x does not prevent use of a write-timing side channel, which allows guest OS users to defeat the ASLR protection mechanism on other guest OS instances via a Cross-VM ASL INtrospection (CAIN) attack. NOTE: the vendor states \"Basically if you care about this attack vector, disable deduplication.\" Share-until-written approaches for memory conservation among mutually untrusting tenants are inherently detectable for information disclosure, and can be classified as potentially misunderstood behaviors rather than vulnerabilities." } ] }, "problemtype": { "problemtype_data": [ { "description": [ { "lang": "eng", "value": "n/a" } ] } ] }, "references": { "reference_data": [ { "name": "76256", "refsource": "BID", "url": "http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76256" }, { "name": "VU#935424", "refsource": "CERT-VN", "url": "http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/935424" }, { "name": "http://www.antoniobarresi.com/files/cain_advisory.txt", "refsource": "MISC", "url": "http://www.antoniobarresi.com/files/cain_advisory.txt" }, { "name": "https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/BGAR-A2CNKG", "refsource": "MISC", "url": "https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/BGAR-A2CNKG" }, { "name": "https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/BLUU-9ZAHZH", "refsource": "MISC", "url": "https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/BLUU-9ZAHZH" }, { "name": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1252096", "refsource": "MISC", "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1252096" }, { "name": "https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/woot15/woot15-paper-barresi.pdf", "refsource": "MISC", "url": "https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/woot15/woot15-paper-barresi.pdf" } ] } }