CVE-2015-9004

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: May 2, 2017
Updated: Aug 6, 2024
Reserved: Mar 28, 2017

Description

kernel/events/core.c in the Linux kernel before 3.19 mishandles counter grouping, which allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted application, related to the perf_pmu_register and perf_event_open functions.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-05-01
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/c3c87e770458aa004bd7ed3f29945ff436fd6511
http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=c3c87e770458aa004bd7ed3f29945ff436fd6511
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