CVEvulnerability
CVE-2015-6526
4.9 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2015-08-31
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-399
Description
The perf_callchain_user_64 function in arch/powerpc/perf/callchain.c in the Linux kernel before 4.0.2 on ppc64 platforms allows local users to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a deep 64-bit userspace backtrace.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (<= 4.0.1)
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=9a5cbce421a283e6aea3c4007f141735bf9da8c3 git.kernel.org
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.0.2 www.kernel.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/18/4 www.openwall.com
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html www.oracle.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76401 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033728 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2759-1 www.ubuntu.com
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2760-1 www.ubuntu.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1218454 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/9a5cbce421a283e6aea3c4007f141735bf9da8c3 github.com
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=9a5cbce421a283e6aea3c4007f141735bf9da8c3 git.kernel.org
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.0.2 www.kernel.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/18/4 www.openwall.com
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html www.oracle.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76401 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033728 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2759-1 www.ubuntu.com
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2760-1 www.ubuntu.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1218454 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/9a5cbce421a283e6aea3c4007f141735bf9da8c3 github.com