CVE-2015-8967

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Dec 8, 2016
Updated: Aug 6, 2024
Reserved: Oct 30, 2016

Description

arch/arm64/kernel/sys.c in the Linux kernel before 4.0 allows local users to bypass the "strict page permissions" protection mechanism and modify the system-call table, and consequently gain privileges, by leveraging write access.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=c623b33b4e9599c6ac5076f7db7369eb9869aa04
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/c623b33b4e9599c6ac5076f7db7369eb9869aa04
94680vdb-entry
http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-12-01.html

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