CVE-2015-2877

Kernel: Cross-VM ASL INtrospection (CAIN)

Published Mar 3, 2017 CVSS 3.1 · 3.3 Low EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
Description
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

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Weaknesses
  • CWE-200

    Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

Sources

Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
certcc
Published
Updated
Aug 6, 2024, 5:32 AM
Reserved
Apr 3, 2015, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Mar 3, 2017, 11:59 AM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 12:24 AM
Severity
Low
Public date
Aug 5, 2015, 12:00 AM