CVEvulnerability
CVE-2015-8963
7.0 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2016-11-16
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.0 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
- 7.0 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.6 HIGH — AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-362, CWE-416
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.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (< 3.2.85)
• linux linux kernel (>= 3.3 < 3.16.40)
• linux linux kernel (>= 3.17 < 3.18.54)
• linux linux kernel (>= 3.19 < 4.4)
Related
References
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=12ca6ad2e3a896256f086497a7c7406a547ee373 Patch, Third Party Advisory, Vendor Advisory
- http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-11-01.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94207 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/12ca6ad2e3a896256f086497a7c7406a547ee373 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=12ca6ad2e3a896256f086497a7c7406a547ee373 Patch, Third Party Advisory, Vendor Advisory
- http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-11-01.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94207 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/12ca6ad2e3a896256f086497a7c7406a547ee373 Patch, Vendor Advisory