CVE-2015-8955

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Oct 10, 2016
Updated: Aug 6, 2024
Reserved: Aug 30, 2016

Description

arch/arm64/kernel/perf_event.c in the Linux kernel before 4.1 on arm64 platforms allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (invalid pointer dereference) via vectors involving events that are mishandled during a span of multiple HW PMUs.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/8fff105e13041e49b82f92eef034f363a6b1c071
http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-10-01.html
http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=8fff105e13041e49b82f92eef034f363a6b1c071
93314vdb-entry

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