CVE-2015-5228

high
Published 2016-06-07 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
7.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v2
7.2
VIR risk
7.8

Description

The service daemon in CRIU creates log and dump files insecurely, which allows local users to create arbitrary files and take ownership of existing files via unspecified vectors related to a directory path.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
75%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-5228

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: secalert@redhat.com — https://lists.openvz.org/pipermail/criu/2015-August/021847.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-5228.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed1.8-2
debian debianforkyfixed1.8-2
debian debiansidfixed1.8-2
debian debiantrixiefixed1.8-2
suse suse13.2affected

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
criucheckpoint\/restore_in_userspace-

References

CWEs

CWE-264

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.