CVE-2015-8963

State: Published
Severity: 7.0 High
Published: Nov 16, 2016
Updated: Oct 15, 2024
Reserved: Oct 3, 2016

Description

Race condition in kernel/events/core.c in the Linux kernel before 4.4 allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (use-after-free) by leveraging incorrect handling of an swevent data structure during a CPU unplug operation.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	7.0 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	CISA-ADP

Weaknesses

CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')
CWE-416 Use After Free

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=12ca6ad2e3a896256f086497a7c7406a547ee373
http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-11-01.html
94207vdb-entry
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/12ca6ad2e3a896256f086497a7c7406a547ee373

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