CVEvulnerability
CVE-2015-8967
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2016-12-08
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 9.3 HIGH — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-264
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.
Affected configurations
• google android (<= 7.0)
• linux linux kernel (<= 3.18.54)
• linux linux kernel (>= 3.19 <= 3.19.8)
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=c623b33b4e9599c6ac5076f7db7369eb9869aa04 Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-12-01.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94680 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/c623b33b4e9599c6ac5076f7db7369eb9869aa04 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=c623b33b4e9599c6ac5076f7db7369eb9869aa04 Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-12-01.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94680 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/c623b33b4e9599c6ac5076f7db7369eb9869aa04 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory