CVE-2015-5231: Criu Checkpoint/restore In Userspace

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The service daemon in CRIU does not properly restrict access to non-dumpable processes, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information via (1) process dumps or (2) ptrace access.

Affected products

  • Criu Checkpoint/restore In Userspace: affected versions not specified
  • Opensuse Opensuse: version 13.2 only

Published 2016-06-07. Last modified 2026-06-17.