CVEvulnerability
CVE-2015-8955
7.3 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2016-10-10
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.3 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-264
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.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (< 3.16.39)
• linux linux kernel (>= 3.18 < 3.18.54)
• linux linux kernel (>= 3.19 < 4.1)
• google android 7.0
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=8fff105e13041e49b82f92eef034f363a6b1c071 Issue Tracking, Patch
- http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-10-01.html Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93314 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry, URL Repurposed
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/8fff105e13041e49b82f92eef034f363a6b1c071 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=8fff105e13041e49b82f92eef034f363a6b1c071 Issue Tracking, Patch
- http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-10-01.html Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93314 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry, URL Repurposed
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/8fff105e13041e49b82f92eef034f363a6b1c071 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory